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Unread 11-19-2021, 03:25 PM   #11
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I make it a rule not to shoot guns that are bigger than me. Congrats on a great find.
I wanna carry that cannon and a 12 gauge to Prospect Hall tommorrow for the tower shoot but I don’t really feel like pushing a gun cart around the circle , because there’s certainly no way I’m carrying both guns and ammunition etc .
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Un struck weight is 11 pounds 5 ounces . I believe the letter said 3 1/2” chambers .
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A group photo of the three big guns .
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I believe these barrels are the heavest I have seen todate..this gun could shoot 2 1/2 ounce to3 ounce loads no problem....charlie
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Just out of sheer curiosity - who is / was Charlie Hunter?
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Just out of sheer curiosity - who is / was Charlie Hunter?
To be honest not anyone of importance as far as Parker provenance is concerned. But the person that used to posses this gun as well as all the ones that sold yesterday in Mt Crawford .
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Nice gun Craig. What’s the story on Charlie Hunter?
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Nice gun Craig. What’s the story on Charlie Hunter?
It’s “my under standing” he had a fair amount to do with the Shennendale Gun Club getting to where it is now but back 35 years ago , he also was big in DU or so I was told . He and his wife had/have a museum in Staunton VA and quite an accumulation of stuff .
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Craig, how close are you to getting a PGCA letter on that great gun? I can't wait to see what the first owner had in mind for a gun with 11 pound, 5 ounce barrels. I know that my first eight gauge Parker hammer gun had a punt swivel in place of the forend when I first took it home. I later replaced the punt fitting with a real Parker forend. It was a Tryon gun that never got farther from the Tryon store than the shore of the Susquehanna River, near where I found it. Some of these big guns never got far from their original place of purchase.
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Craig, how close are you to getting a PGCA letter on that great gun? I can't wait to see what the first owner had in mind for a gun with 11 pound, 5 ounce barrels. I know that my first eight gauge Parker hammer gun had a punt swivel in place of the forend when I first took it home. I later replaced the punt fitting with a real Parker forend. It was a Tryon gun that never got farther from the Tryon store than the shore of the Susquehanna River, near where I found it. Some of these big guns never got far from their original place of purchase.
I got the letter from the Chuckster a few days before the auction . Well as I can remmember the gun initially went to Kansas City . Wasn't any mention about much else if my memory serves .
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