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04-10-2020, 04:32 AM | #23 | ||||||
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Some great stories here ! do any of y'all keep these stories written down for future generations ?
I think your grandkids would find it pretty cool to know the story of grandpas sxs . I would at minimal like to have at least 3 Parkers , one for me and each of my brothers . I was thinking it would be special if we could all go hunting with a Parker in hand . |
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04-10-2020, 06:44 AM | #24 | |||||||
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04-10-2020, 07:22 AM | #25 | ||||||
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Wow this is really cool! My first Parker I was 32, I love British doubles but wanted an American made gun and no better choice than a Parker, it was a reworked Trojan and I really enjoyed it. After reading more about them and asking all I could here (with annoying questions!) I started on my quest to upgrade, I’ve settled on 3 and am quite content, although I am hearing the call of a small bore or hammer gun! We just recently got our son his first Parker at 9, he doesn’t quite understand it yet, but god willing he’ll be on here 20yrs later telling this same story!
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04-10-2020, 08:19 AM | #26 | ||||||
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I purchased my first L.C. when I was 16 and my first Parker, a GH, forty years later, which I restored. I have collected both for the last few years and hope to continue. I keep an eye out for a 16 Parker hammer but they seem scarcer then hens teeth.
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04-10-2020, 09:00 AM | #27 | ||||||
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I was 29...and my first Parker was a PH 20. Year was 1975. I remember I paid $1500 from an ad in Shotgun News...The following year, I got married..bought an old Victorian to "fix up"..and sold the Parker and my Mark IV Lincoln to help pay for upgrades..The wife is gone. the house is gone..I miss the Parker most !!!
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04-10-2020, 09:21 AM | #28 | ||||||
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My dad had three Parkers when I was a kid. I would sneak out with the 16, up the outside basement stairs, hunt for 1-2 hours and get back before he got home. Always gave anything I bagged to an old guy down the road, mainly because I never came up with an answer to the inevitable question "How did you get that bird?"
Got my first VH20 from a neighbor when I was about 21. Had to trade a lot of my saltwater fishing tackle. Turns out, that gun was bought the same day as my dad's 20, at The PB factory. My dad's father's cousin took my dad, and the Cousin's wife's cousin, in his Pierce Arrow, from East Hampton, CT to Meriden. Got it? Our family vet bought my dad's 20, and took it to CO. He offered to sell it back to me, but seems to think it's worth an AH price. I still have the 16 I covertly hunted with way back then. |
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04-10-2020, 09:24 AM | #29 | ||||||
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Well for me my first double was a LC Smith 12ga, I was 45 at the time, my first Parker was about one year later, I happened into a gun shop to buy a client a Ruger red label shotgun for a gift at Xmas, The owner showed me a Parker 12 ga PHE steel barreled gun in great condition, well most folks know the rest of the story, I stoped at that shop every time I was coming to the cabin in the mountains, and usually could not wait to see what new offerings that shop held, 33 years later, I have been fortunate to own some nice Parkers, and some unusual ones, Gary
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04-10-2020, 09:57 AM | #30 | ||||||
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WOW! Some cool stories here on first Parker’s. My first was not as exciting as being gifted with one at 9 or finding one at 16. I acquired mine through attrition. I had been shooting competition for decades and got tired of NSCA shooter attitudes and so many rules that I needed something different to put the fun back into clays. Enter our buddy Cold Spring and his passion for double guns. He got me hooked on the horizontal oriented barreled guns. Started with Fox guns. I had one, then two. Next thing I had quite a few Fox guns. I “needed” more so I could shoot hammer gun events too. Enter those sexy hinge pin guns from Parker!! Be still my heart!! So then I see all the events sponsored by Parker or for Parker or about Parker and I quickly moved my Fox guns and procured more Parker’s! By now I’m fully addicted and loving it!! But, I digress. The first Parker I purchased was an early 12g lifter with 30” barrels. The next day I purchased a DH 12/30. Let’s just say when I’m in I’m ALL in!! 😂 That was about 8 or 9 years ago and I would have been 49 or 50. Fun times when you’re having flies!!
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