Gomer Pyle's Parker

Originally Posted by Christopher Lien

I remember seeing that episode about a year ago. Gomer was running around waving a Parker that Andy had given him to help out with armored car guard duty, and yes, it had very lonnnnng barrels... Was probably Nash B's long lost 34" Parker fowler...

CSL
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Gomer with only one shell for his Parker- and Barney Fife with one shell for his wheelgun--I do know of one fairly current movie where the Parker is mentioned, in an oblique manner- John Gresham's novel "Runaway Jury" the plot is a civil suit against a Southern tobacco company- but in the Hollywood version, with Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman and John Clusak-- the plot is a civil suit against a Southern gun mfg. and at one point the President/CEO of that firm is shooting skeet, you can see the recessed hingepin of the side-by he is shooting- he calls pull- hits the clay, opens the shotgun and the spent shell ejects, and he makes a point about a 70 year old shotgun still being reliable, unlike some people of that age he knew- Had to be a Parker-