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Unread 10-10-2017, 04:59 PM   #1
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I wonder if it’s original owner ever imagined 121 years later it’d still be dropping birds?
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Nice, healthy looking bird. And I like your Parker!
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We're but keepers of these classic American doubles for the future generation...

Wonderful picture. Good to be alive during the Fall!
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i ll grant you that the first owner never thought that 121 years later the gun would still look as good as it does now...wish one of my old 8 ga s looked that good..some of our guns were took better care of than others....charlie
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And we can also wonder in that gun's 121 years how many times it had put woodcock on it's owners' tables...





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I have a 121 year old GH 12ga. 1896 ser.#84xxx, that still puts down a bird now and then. Mine is a little more faded, but overall in great shape.
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Woodcock are such cool little birds
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It's not exactly an ideal upland gun being a 2 frame GH with 30" barrels choked FULL/FULL, but I seem to do halfway decent with the 7 1/2 RST spreaders.
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And now that picture has become the new Home Page Picture!

Congratulations! and thanks to John Dunkle!





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not exactly ideal, seems like kind of an understatement. More of a turkey gun
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