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Bruce Day
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 06:34 pm |
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Larry, aside from from being a wonderful C grade, your new gun has the very unusual engraving of Gambel's quail. Absolutely fabulous. I was wondering how long you would hold out from posting the photos. A great gun and worth the expense. I think its only the second I've seen with Gambel's quail.
Larry: 30"
You ought to be able to beat Dunkle with that old gun of his grandfather's. That was a heavy gun to haul through Ross's Nebraska cornfields. Its not often we get a good gun out here and we lost that one went back to the east.
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 06:42 pm |
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 06:47 pm |
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Beautiful!!!!
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 07:28 pm |
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Very nice Larry, can't wait to watch you administer a wooping on John. With a gun like that I'll take one.
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 07:31 pm |
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Larry,Soo thats the NEW gun I have been hearing about! Absolutly stunning.Can,t wait to see it in the flesh! Congratulations!
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 07:48 pm |
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Bruce Day wrote:
You ought to be able to beat Dunkle with that old gun of his grandfather's. That was a heavy gun to haul through Ross's Nebraska cornfields. Its not often we get a good gun out here and we lost that one went back to the east.
Are you kidding ?? John's AAHE is like a magic wand. It is so well-balanced it feels light as a feather and so it "floats like a butterfly but stings like a bee." 
Larry, like I said before, that is a wonderful Parker! I can't wait to "heft" it too. . . Are we in heaven? Seems like this must be what heaven is like. . . wonderful Parkers all around us 
Hey Larry, I hope you are accustomed to shooting wobble trap - John is.
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 08:37 pm |
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One of the few other CHE 20ga damascus guns known. A local bird. If anybody is thinking about it, there are a bunch of these birds out here this year. I was trying to figure out where in Kansas there are mountains. These must be the Dodge City Alps.
There were only 14 of these guns made according to TPS and here are two of them. Wonder how many are left. I've accounted for five. Anybody have the one C 20ga with 32" damascus barrels?
SN 174,549( 1916) CHE 20/28", pg, splf, dt, ssbp.
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 08:39 pm |
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| Trying to pin down the pheasant. This may be one of Tom Flanigan's dogs. Attached Image (viewed 380 times):
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 09:41 pm |
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Larry;
What ever you do, do not, I repeat do not shoot for the losers gun!!!!
Beautiful gun
PTG Roger
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 11:49 pm |
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Thanks for the nice comments guys. I was really attracted to the deep relief style of engraveing not often seen on our beloved Parkers.
Bruce it would be a good bet the same hand engrved the 20 gage you pictured and my C (172181). It's also a good bet that this gun which letters at 8# with a straight stock and only 1 3/4" drop at heel killed a few peigons for a Mr. George B. Hartly of Philadelphia. Also if I remember on Monday I will send you some photo's of another 20 gage Damascus C that last I new was out in Montana.
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 12:22 am |
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| Bruce, that is terrific! There is some very fine looking stuff on this thread and I have not even had one beer!
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 01:45 am |
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| Larry, pretty neat, aren't those pigeon/trap configuration guns? I have two of them, a CHE Bernard and the BHE and they shoot very well. Straight stock , high dimensions and a nicely balanced weight that makes them seem to weigh less than they do. Parker knew how to build guns. Last edited on Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 11:53 am by Bruce Day
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Posted: Thu Jul 10th, 2008 02:55 am |
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Hey Bruce, wasn't the Dodge City Alps on Miss Kitty?
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Posted: Sat Jul 12th, 2008 04:15 am |
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Here's a real pretty CHE 20 gauge that perhaps you will recognize Bruce.
The pictures were e-mailed to me a few years ago by a gentleman who's name I do not remember. He asked me what I thought the value of the gun might be. Right away I felt like I was being set-up. From what I could see, the frame, a short section of the barrels and a bit of the stock were all very nice but, again, feeling I was being set-up, I decided to comment only on that part of the gun that I could see - for all I knew the barrels may have been hacked off at twelve inches and the same fate may have met the stock - so I wrote back to him "I wouldn't take anything less than $7,000." His immediate reply to me was "Okay friend, I've got your number." And I never heard from him again despite a couple of attempts to contact him.
In any case, what we can see of it is real pretty 
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Posted: Sat Jul 12th, 2008 04:19 am |
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Sat Jul 12th, 2008 11:58 am |
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Its a nice little damascus C 20, Dean. Fourteen made and about 5 or 6 known by my greatly informal count. I don't know what the price would be today on these guns the way they have been escalating. Several fluid steel C 20's have sold recently in the 30's and I think damascus and fluid steel are at price parity, but then you start talking condition and many of the damascus small bores are sparse on condition, but high on interest, so beats me on what they would bring in summer 2008.
Some time ago a fellow who owned perhaps the only D grade Bernard( a 12) contacted me for discussion. I shot him a price based upon a decent condition D damascus that had sold at Julia's, plus a little for Bernard. Of course I was clearly wrong and way low to him because in his mind a D Bernard ought to be worth much more than a C Bernard based upon scarcity, and he had that in his mind and of course he doesn't communicate what he wants and then he thinks I am trying to lowball when I propose a price. I much prefer it when a seller does his own research and comes up with a straightforward price which I can meet or not. Some of my mentors have always said to make the seller commit to a price at the start and they have been 100% right.
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Posted: Sat Jul 12th, 2008 12:07 pm |
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Here are pictures of another CHE 20 damascus, a nice gun, so that makes four of the fourteen made shown here.
I wonder if this is the same gun that is in your photos Dean. The side panel dogs look very similar. If so, I don't think $7000 will do it.
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Posted: Sat Jul 12th, 2008 12:08 pm |
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Posted: Sat Jul 12th, 2008 12:10 pm |
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| bottom has elk. Nice colors and would you look at those screw heads! Attached Image (viewed 132 times):
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