Parker Trap Gun At Auction
 

The ad says fresh to market but I am fairly certain(if memory serves) this is the gun that was featured in an article in double gun journal around 2002 that sold at an auction in Las Vegas fetching a then Parker Gun auction record of over $100,000. I may still have the issue of dgj it was featured in.

More pics, info: https://bid.guyetteanddeeter.com/lot...tgun-with-case

Autumn 2000, page 84

Lovely piece .

It was displayed at one of our PGCA get togethers at that time in conjunction with an Ohio Gun Collector's Association show.

First time I ever saw it was at the Southern well over a decade ago. I have seen it a few times since then. It is a truly remarkable Parker and it’s appearance is deceiving. You would think it’s a 8 1/2 lb gun but it feels like wand in the hand.





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Double Gun Journal Article
 

In the description of the gun it says:

This gun was featured in a full length Double Gun Journal Article authored and photographed by William Headrick in the Autumn 2007 issue pages 84-95.

Larry, that description in the catalog was in error, an error that I corrected in an earlier post. Check it out. The correct DGJ article is the one I mentioned in this post.

Bill is correct. Worth looking up if for no other reason than seeing Bill Headrick's incomparable photographs.

I was in regular correspondence with Bill in those years and after every issue of DGJ came out I'd have to go through a period of him bitching about how Cote's printers screwed up his Kodachromes and how much better Precision Shooting did with his work.

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Remarkably similar to this gun:whistle:

https://parkerguns.org/forums/album....pictureid=2002

I bet it shoots as well as it looks.:whistle:

Heeey… I took that picture of the owner shooting it in NH.





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This thread reminds me of the old saying about an elephant in the room. Many of us know of this gun, some of us know it's owner and a small fortunate number of us have handled and shot the gun. It's a beautiful and unique Parker, surely one of the nicest trap guns Parker ever produced and with provenance to it's first owner. Despite it's weight and long barrels it is so perfectly balanced it moves to the target effortlessly. To a trapshooter that it fits it is indeed a magic wand. A decision to sell such a gun would not be easy but life changes in many ways as we grow older. I am confident this was a well thought and deliberate choice and surely bittersweet. I wish the current owner, a friend to many of us, great success and hope the gun brings more than the estimated range.