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Unread 07-04-2018, 10:00 PM   #1
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I guess I shouldn't say this but the case, if it doesn't have solid provinence, may not be legitimate. Anyone can make a Clark Gable name piece and "age" it. I don't believe any gun story without solid provenance. There are folks out there who will fake things to make sales more lucrative. Then the poor sould who bought the piece then thinks he has the real deal and passes on the story to others. Fakery is not good. I guess I shouldn't say this either, but I don't like the fact that Delgrego reworked Parkers and stamped skeet in and skeet out on the barrels. There are a lot of them out there. I am suspect of any Parker skeet gun that was worked on by the Delgrego's. It may be a true factory skeet gun but chances are that it isn't.
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Unfortunately there have always been cheats and there will always be cheats. As technology progresses someone will find a way to make something into what they want it to be. My father used to say that if a cheater put as much time into doing it the right way versus the short cut by cheating in the first place the results would be honest and probably take less effort in the long run.

I'm always leery of anything that looks to good for it's age or is a rare find be it high grade small bore Parkers or Winchester M70's esp super grades.
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I guess I shouldn't say this but the case, if it doesn't have solid provinence, may not be legitimate. Anyone can make a Clark Gable name piece and "age" it. I don't believe any gun story without solid provenance. There are folks out there who will fake things to make sales more lucrative. Then the poor sould who bought the piece then thinks he has the real deal and passes on the story to others. Fakery is not good. I guess I shouldn't say this either, but I don't like the fact that Delgrego reworked Parkers and stamped skeet in and skeet out on the barrels. There are a lot of them out there. I am suspect of any Parker skeet gun that was worked on by the Delgrego's. It may be a true factory skeet gun but chances are that it isn't.
So, that rattly old sawed off Belgian made hammer gun at the gun show with the Wells Fargo logo engraved in the buttstock might be a fake?
The seller seemed so sincere.
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