Found an interesting gun
I was at scheels in omaha yesterday and bought what looked like a cobbled up phe Parker priced at $1295. It had been there for some months and I finally asked to look at it. The gun has a poorly fitted replacement buttstock,single trigger,ejectors,beavertail forend and a vent rib and some kind of recent case color. Let me say here that I despise 98 percent of restocked and recolored guns. The rib had been filed down at the breech end and looked very cobbled. I havent paid much attention to vent rib parkers and just assumed that the rib was some aftermarket job. . I called my 16yr old at home and had him look up the serial number. He said it had a 2 and 4 under the extras which mean ejectors and single trigger. The book info and the filed rib along with the stock made me think the gun was a built up gun with an aftermarked rib and beavertail so I thought it would be a good beater trap gun I could abuse(read that "shoot alot"). I bought the gun(for considerably less than asking price) and brought it home. I got out the parker story and started reading. I checked the numbers again and found the 24 was 24 not 2 and 4. 24 means Single trigger,ejectors,beavertail and vent rib. Ends up they only made a few hundred vent rib guns and only seven ph guns with ventilated ribs, only two, mine and another with vr,bt,ej,sst and the other was a straight stock gun(mine is capped pg). It looks like my gun is the first vr P grade made. The way the parker rib angles up from the breech must have bothered the previous owner so he ground it down. If he would have stocked it higher it would have been better than filing,trap shooters grrrr. The salesman thought same as me a cobbled gun. You would think they would check the numbers... Ill be getting a letter on the gun,maybe it was owned by a known trapshooter. Pics later....
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