Invincible stock repair

[Austin W Hogan]

I visited Babe and Lawrence and they loaned me several pictures of the Invincibles as they passed through the Del grego shop over the years. These are in the Parker Pages article. The most interesting of these show a single digit aged Lawrence, and 30 ish Babe holding two Invincibles, and then the two of them holding the guns 30 plus years later. 200000 wore a Mershon pad and a BIG btfe at that time, but I think the splinter was replaced for the photo.
Babe told me that Runge made the replacement stock for the last 231000 Invincible, and that he did so with the other Invincibles on the bench. When it came time to fit the unusual initial shield, they flipped a coin. The other two Invincibles had them facing in opposite directions.

Best, Austin

[Bill Murphy]

Austin brings up some interesting facts about the Invincibles, one of which states that #200,000, long lost to Parker researchers, once wore a Mershon pad. I don't find that so strange since a neighbor of mine who was a shooter probably more than a collector at some times in his life, owned the gun for many years until his death. He probably had the Mershon pad installed to make the gun more friendly to his shooting style. After all, it is a shotgun. I visited those I Guns a week or so ago and they are safe and dry.

[Pa SxS]

Bill, are you sure you aren't a Parker Life Member since conception? You sure do have some interesting stories to relate.

[Bill Murphy]

I had met some people before the beginning of PGCA that shared some secrets that put me and a couple of others at a bit of an advantage. There are several people in PGCA that knew the whereabouts of "lost" Invincibles long before they were outed. It was understood by those people that keeping that information under wraps was what the owners preferred.