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11-18-2019, 08:18 AM
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LOL!
My B,C,Ds & VHEs all take offense!
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11-18-2019, 08:23 AM
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In shotguns in terms of numbers, Parker first, Fox second, LC Smith third, Ithaca last. They all fascinate me as objects created by different individuals and companies during the gilded age and into the early years of last century. My primary focus has been on american waterfowl guns from that same period regardless of manufacturer.
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11-18-2019, 09:04 AM
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I don't own every brand of fine shotgun, but I'm getting there. I have owned my first Parker for sixty years, since I was fourteen years old, and finally reached the holy grail recently. My "holy grail" was a Whitworth Fluid Steel barrel AA Grade Parker Pigeon Gun and a Whitworth barrel exposed hammer, bar in iron, late Purdey pigeon gun, one of the last ever made before the recent reintroduction at $80,000 plus. My first shotgun, when I was about eleven years old, was an 1887 Lefever E Grade pigeon gun owned by my grandfather, a pigeon shooter and pigeon ring proprietor in Hazleton, PA. I guess I was inoculated early with the "shoot birds for money" needle. He died in 1929 and his Lefever remained in storage with my uncle Norbert until he sent it to me around 1956. Apparently, eleven was his idea of the proper age for a kid to have his first Lefever. I wasted no time loading my first box of black powder shells for it.
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11-18-2019, 09:26 AM
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I’m a two timer...many (many) times over.
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“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.” ― Jim Harrison "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
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11-18-2019, 09:56 AM
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I have others, (LC Smith, Winchester, Fox, and Ithacas mainly) but I have transitioned to Parkers almost exclusively over the last few years. There are lots of reasons for this I suppose but the ones that jump out at me would be the gun itself and then there's the PGCA and the folks involved. Not a bad place to hang out eh
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11-18-2019, 10:02 AM
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I play the field, but have found the fair maidens from Meriden to be the ones to take home to mom.
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11-18-2019, 10:41 AM
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Parker by far #1, followed loosely in order by Fox, Smith, Ithaca, Various Brits, Baker, LeFever, Various Euro Guns, Iver Johnson, American Hardware Store guns, and a couple of very early Japanese "B.C. MY Luck doubles.
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11-18-2019, 10:59 AM
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Parkers make up the majority of my collection and I shoot Parkers more than anything else, but I also enjoy a wide variety of other classic guns, including a few autos, pump guns and over and unders. I am partial to American made
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