Heads up, Auction Saturday....

[Autumn Daze]

Rick, I was told at the show by one of the guy's from Amoskeag that it was used by the Penn Highway Dept to shoot pigeons from under the overpasses.

The stock is marked "PHD"

[ahfoxman]

I had a 26", 1/2 PG, Dogs head butt plated, 410 VH back in the '70s that was marked with the PHD stamp on the head of the stock. It was in nearly unfired condition with all finishes remaining. It left here along with 5 other Parker 410's to fund my purchase of TR's F Grade. Ahhhhh, if I was only born a rich man. But then again, Life is Good.

Just went downstairs and checked, it was one of 4 other Parker 410's and 3 28's (one a minty GHE 26" with tags) that went to fund Teddy's Fox and they didn't get it all done. One of them was a 410 VHE, that I sold to W. O. Odem for an upgrade project, and it was the 410 that I doubled on geese while shooting Federal paper 3/4 oz, rolled crimps. Ha, I breast shot the pot lickers as they came in on final approach. Today, I went up to a friend's regulated shooting grounds and shot 7 birds with the same pencil loads. It has to be one of the best 410 loads. Sorry for the mis-information.

[Autumn Daze]

Tom, That is where this gun was marked also...on the head of the stock.

[Charlie Price]

I saw what must have been that .410 VH at an Ohio GCA show in Columbus many years ago. The owner was from PA and said PHD used it to shoot groundhogs along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I recall the price was $12,000. Charlie Price

[ahfoxman]

Hello Mr. Price, Ha, I think I got around $4500 for it and it was the most I received for any of them. It was only ten years or so before, that I had a PHE 410 on the arm that I sold at the old Balto show back in the mid sixties for around $550. Wow, how tiny bores appreciated in short order. If we only would have had crystal balls. But I have no complaints, as Life has been really Good to me.

[Eldon Goddard]

Originally Posted by Tom Kidd

I had a 26", 1/2 PG, Dogs head butt plated, 410 VH back in the '70s that was marked with the PHD stamp on the head of the stock. It was in nearly unfired condition with all finishes remaining. It left here along with 5 other Parker 410's to fund my purchase of TR's F Grade. Ahhhhh, if I was only born a rich man. But then again, Life is Good.

Just went downstairs and checked, it was one of 4 other Parker 410's and 3 28's (one a minty GHE 26" with tags) that went to fund Teddy's Fox and they didn't get it all done. One of them was a 410 VHE, that I sold to W. O. Odem for an upgrade project, and it was the 410 that I doubled on geese while shooting Federal paper 3/4 oz, rolled crimps. Ha, I breast shot the pot lickers as they came in on final approach. Today, I went up to a friend's regulated shooting grounds and shot 7 birds with the same pencil loads. It has to be one of the best 410 loads. Sorry for the mis-information.

So are you saying you own Theodore Roosevelts Fox? Is it the one he mentions in "African Game Trails"?
Anyways I like the 1895 Winchester in .405 win

[ahfoxman]

Hello Mr. Goddard, Yes, I did own and shot quite a few birds with TR's F Grade Fox, that he took to Africa and South America, for some 26 years, but I sold it early in the new Millenium to fund retirement adventures, and it now resides in the Museum in Cody, Wyoming. Wow,talk about a run on sentence, one too many after the hunt single malts.