More on "Skeet Guns"

[Stephen Hodges]

I would like to know if anyone has ever seen this type of stamping of "Skeet In" "Skeet Out" on the barrel flats of a Parker Skeet Gun? The limited amount that I have seen have the "in" and "Out" positioned under the "Skeet". And let me say that this is a 1935 built gun, which letters with the beavetail forend, single parker trigger, straight grip stock, twin ivory beads, 26" barrels and ejectors. But the chokes and butt treatment are not mentioned in the letter.

[Rich Anderson]

I've never seen it marked like that. All my skeet guns have the in and out under skeet just like you mentioned.

[John Campbell]

For what it's worth, Winchester used this terminology on many M-21 skeet guns...

[Brian Dudley]

Those markings look very suspect.

[Dave Noreen]

For what it's worth, Winchester used this terminology on many M-21 skeet guns...

All these years and I've never seen that. A few early Model 21 Skeet Guns from 1932 were cylinder and improved cylinder, but from 1933 onward they were normally WS-1 and WS-2.

The marking on Remington's Model 31 and Sportsman Skeet Gun barrels was SKEET much like the markings on those barrel flats.

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[John Campbell]

I once owned a 12-bore M-21 Tournament Skeet gun with Skeet In and Skeet Out stamped on its flats.

The markings on the subject Parker may be from the Remington era per the type style on the M 31 above. But I'm no expert on that...

[Rich Anderson]

There is a time frame when the skeet guns were made, I don't recall the dates but you could find them easy enough. Reference the date of manufacture by the serial number. This saved me on purchasing a DHE vent rib 12 that was being marketed as a skeet gun. Turned out to be made before the production date skeet guns started in.

[Dean Romig]

And Parkers were never stamped witb italicized letters like those Steve.





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[Kevin McCormack]

I firmly believe that there were more Parker skeet guns made in serial number ranges that WAY pre-dated the introduction of the game of skeet, let alone any US maker offering a designated "skeet gun" model, than ever left either Meriden or Ilion.

[Dean Romig]

I agree with that Kevin and I have seen and examined several... but I never bought one of those.:whistle:







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[Brian Dudley]

Parker skeet guns are a lot like ‘32 Ford coupes. There are more around today than were ever actually originally built. Hmmm...

[Dean Romig]

Yup - take a Chevy 350" coupled with an auto tranny to a Jaguar independent rear end all sitting in a custom tubular frame and drop a glass 32 "Ford" shell on it and it is instantly transformed into a "Deuce Coupe."





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