Sweet Li’l Lifter
 

My sixteen gauge 23243 has 24-inch Plain Twist barrels cut back from their original 28 inches. Very little choke making it perfect for the kind of hunting I do with an occasional foray to the Skeet field.

I’m so happy to have it back!


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Very nice Dean!! Thanks for sharing!!!



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Happy you got her back Dean. I know you missed her.

I put together a nice little display of Lifters together for the California State SxS Championship in late April early May at our annual event in beautiful Coarsegold, CA. It was fun.

Very much Jim - Very much!
Don’t know why I ever sold her in the first place.:knowbetter:





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Dean, I remember you got GG to do the woodcock on the trigger guard, but I had never noticed the unusual complete lack of engraving except for the sunflower (or whatever it is) on the firing pin retaining screws. Did you get a letter explaining that? As always, a neat little gun.

To quote Thomas Haynes Bayly-“absence makes the heart grow fonder”

And what we learn here is Never sell anything! Ha

Love the woodcock and starburst engraving. Unique

The fact that it is a Grade-0 I never ordered a letter but I believe I will now.
There will probably be zero to very little info but what the heck - it’s only forty bucks.






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I think the engravers sometimes sneak in a little gift like the engraving on Dean's lifter. On my AAH Pigeon gun, stated in the order "no engraving", the sides of the safety button are expertly engraved with fine scroll. I owned the gun for weeks before I noticed this little "gift" from the engraver to the customer.

What a great display! Thank you for sharing.

Wow! Great display.

I've got one I'll sell you.

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That’s right Edgar, it was yours a couple of years before it was mine. :rotf:





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Ask, and Ye shall receive.

Well I’ll be… The original buyer lived just down the street from you Edgar. He might even have taken his horse and buggy over to Meriden to pick it up:whistle:

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He'd want to stay off those interstates with a horse and buggy.

Glad you have it back. That is a sweet gun

I Love it.
Next step is the barrels.





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I live nowhere near Bridgeport, but, whatever it takes to hit 34K

About 50 miles north of Bridgeport?… just a WAG.

Ooops… I apologize Edgar, I thought Bloomfield was south of Hartford… I was so wrong!:banghead:



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Dean, Sophie my English setter and I would be most happy to take a bird hunt this Fall with you. Sophie is steady to wing.

That could be fun Allen.





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Mr. Dean or Mr. Edgar,

Have either of you checked the pattern of the gun since the barrels had been cut? I noticed in the letter that the barrels shot the same when tested at Meriden but wonder what the pattern was like after the barrels were shortened. I have heard that when some barrels were cut that the patterns became erratic. I have one double with barrels that are shorter than the book states the shotgun came with. Just wondering. Happy that you have your shotgun back Mr. Dean.

Kind of looking forward to the first Photo Friday in October with a pic of that 16 with a woodcock or grouse or two...

I've never checked the pattern but for some grazy reason this little gun really reaches out there.
At Addieville about a dozen or so years ago Dave Suponski, with his little Lifter 16 with cut barrels and a straight grip, and I using this little Lifter, tested them one against the other and we were soundly breaking clays out over 40 yards.
Also, to those of you who are familiar with the last big bore station where the clays come sailing off the hiiitop presenting a looong high shot I broke 4 out of six... or was that a four report pair station...? In any case this little sawad-off 16 made a very good showing.





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These are from when I owned it several years ago...
My grandson Cam, was seven or eight at that time. He's 20 now.
He blew out his ACL two weeks ago playing college lacrosse.
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Hope the grandson recovers quickly.

Wow has he grown from the last time i saw him at the house when i gave him a duck decoy to take home. :)

Great picture of Stosh. That was the Addieville Vintagers, 2012 or 2013 (the last two years it was there. I still owned the gun then, and sold it to Tom Carter in 2012. He kept it two years, the plan being a set of steel barrels. He had done that to another small bore lifter which he let me shoot at the Fall Southern, 2012,when we all ran for the hills when Super Storm Sandy chased up the coast.
You might be talking about the C&D birds at station 8, or the real high ones at station 10, which Jay and I seem to spend much of our time. I shot that one last week with my Cyl, and IC 28ga last week. It's those two stations that give me belief that Cylinder bores really don't spread as soon as usually thought. That 28 gave me an 84 at Peacedale (Grouse Course) last month at Jay's Parker shoot.

Edgar, it was definitely the Vintagers event at Addieville but it was my gun at the time.
The gun passed from you to Tom Carter, (then to Dave Dwyer, then to Tom or Dave and ultimately to me at Pintail Point all in that one Southern event) and it was sent to me a week or two later. Then at the following Vintagers at Addieville I shot it with Dave "Stosh" on those looong targets. We had a small audience... maybe four people.

Did I ever thank you for selling it?
If Not, Thanks very much my Friend!!





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I find a certification letter comforting even if it revels only that a 150 year old Parker is still in the same configuration as she was when she left the factory. Sometimes the letter reveals a tortured past, but someone cared enough to send her back to the maker to get her right. Reminds me of God and His people.

Great photos Dean. Hope your grandson recovers in time to walk the woods with you in October...

That would be wonderful and that is one of two goals, the other is that he be able to continue playing college lacrosse which is something he has loved since he could pick up a lacrosse stick when he was about 5.





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