Common Parker

Bruce Day · 06-16-2009, 01:27 PM

Here is a very common type of Parker, they made about 18,000 of them and I think they were the gun that did the most to make the Parker gun famous. Its a 2 frame, 30" damascus barreled GH, this one has ejectors and weighs 7 1/2 lbs. They shoot well and I have used this one for late season pheasant as well as ducks and geese with heavier loads. They are great shooting and handling guns and are available with a little searching.

Its in an A&F vc case. I'm not sure the gun has ever been apart, I have only cleaned it, had Dale Edmonds redo the dark barrels and cleaned up the finish and rubbed a new topcoat in. Its a Canadian gun, sold new in Vancouver and spent most of its life on the eastern slope.

If a person wants a nice Parker, I sure wouldn't pass up a nice GH.

Bruce Day · 06-16-2009, 01:29 PM

xxx

Ed Blake · 06-16-2009, 04:33 PM

Bruce, that sure has nice wood. I have it's twin in a 1 1/2 frame and the wood on it is very good. I'd say "sound as the dollar", but a Parker is the better store of value it seems nowadays.

Bruce Day · 06-16-2009, 05:18 PM

Ed, let's see your G. There are a lot of them, many have very nice black walnut and even a few with European walnut. These guns are wonderful, not very costly, nice wood and enough engraving to make it interesting. Then you get those great and interesting damascus barrels.....I see Purdeys is now making guns with damascus barrels. A nice G sells for a fraction of the cost of a Purdey.

Ed Blake · 06-17-2009, 09:00 AM

I'll take some and post them when I get home. It's a great dove gun. A prior owner stuck a Pachmeyer Old English pad on it, but I can live with it.

Lon E. Morris · 06-17-2009, 10:31 PM

Bruce,
Interesting! Reminds me of a gun I shot ducks with last winter.

I hope the Trojan shoots Hevi Shot Classic Doubles like this GH, because it is deadly. I pounded them at 40 yards on the pond. Lon

terc · 06-18-2009, 08:21 AM

Ed, Bruce, I recently purchased a G grade "triplet" to yours with a #1 frame.
It's great little gun weighing in at 7lbs. even.I'll post some pics this evening.
Dave

Bruce Day · 06-18-2009, 08:32 AM

Great. Let's see more G pictures. They are such nice guns, well made. Even as a low end Parker they were head and shoulders above most of the competition, and still are in both vintage and new guns.

Derrick Stewart · 06-18-2009, 01:12 PM

Bruce,

That is one sweet gun and a fairly nice stick of wood too. In my limited knowledge it seems to me that the older guns (cira 1890's) had some exceptionally well figured stocks, better than the latter years in general. I know from time to time you will see a later GH with a very nice stick of wood too. I had to recenty had to sell my #1 frame cira 1890 GH Damascus gun (but hopefully i'll get it back one of these days). It had the 11 ga bores that were somewhat common back then. My #1 frame weighed in excess of 7-1/2 lbs if my memory serves me correct.

Hammer Gun · 06-18-2009, 01:38 PM

Bruce, Trying to figure out how to post photos on this new site. Have interesting Ghe 32" with monte carlo from factory, steel brls. Thanks Gary