Capt. Money's stolen Parkers

[Researcher]

Capt. DuBray took Noel E. Money's order for a $400 Whitworth gun on February 9, 1895. The gun was to have 30-inch barrels, a slender grip, no safety, 2 3/4" chambers, scroll and flowers, no birds, trigger pulls 3 and 4, must be done by May 1. Serial number 81122. The 1895 GAH was 3-5 April at Willard Park, and Noel was noted as shooting a 7 1/2 pound Parker using a load of 48 grains of E.C. pushing 1 1/4 ounce of #7 out of a UMC TRAP shell. I don't know why the load was given in grains when E.C. was a bulk powder?!? Forty-eight grains would be in between 3 1/4 drams (47 grains E.C.) and 3 1/2 drams (50 grains E.C.).

[Drew Hause]

Noel was 2nd at the 1st GAH at Live Birds



Pressures for 1 1/4 oz. 3 1/2 Dr. Eq. BULK Smokeless were about 11,750 psi

From the 1895 DuPont Trophy report in Sporting Life
O.R. Dickey, of Boston, Mass., (winner the 1896 GAH) used a very handsome Parker Bros, hammerless gun, of the Pigeon model, and his load consisted of 50 grains, or about 3 1/2 drams by measure, of American “E.C.” powder, 1 trap wad, one 3/8 inch pink felt, one 1/4-inch pink edge, and 1 1/8 ounce of No. 7 chilled shot in the United States Cartridge Co.'s “Rapid” shells, 2 3/4 inches in length.

$500 was big money in 1896, esp. after the "Panic of 1893"

Harold and Capt. Money both used Parkers at the 1901 GAH at Live Birds but Harold later became a Winchester Professional Representative using a 1897 Repeating Shotgun, and competed primarily in the South.

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