Your intro to Parkers and your first Parker

[Larry the Gun Guy]

When I was growing up in Idaho everything was Browning, I knew only one person who had a double and he was my Dad's boss. It was a gold engraved Fox and man could this guy shoot it. I had no interest in S x S until a friend talked me into going to a California S x S shoot. I was amazed at all of the high end guns that I saw, but they really weren't for me---until I shot one.
At some point later there was an ad in the local paper for a 20 gauge Parker . It was about 6:30 in the morning and I rang that guy's phone. Come on out, he said and I still remember my heart and the car racing for the next 30 minutes until I got there. Out of the closet the guy fetches a 30" 20 gauge VHE in reasonably good shape and he said his son was about 12 and his wife wanted all of the guns out of the house. I was really sad about that statement, knowing there was a young boy that was going to miss his chance at the shooting life and especially with a Parker, but took it I did and off to work I went. Later that day one of my friends called me to tell me there was a 20 gauge Parker in the paper, but I told him that someone already bought it. That was several Parkers ago....