The ongoing balmy winter weather here in Colorado allowed for a very nice Polar Bear Shoot with the Rocky Mountain Vintagers last Saturday. As usual, many nice side by sides were on display and being used on the clay games we were playing, including two Parker hammerguns. Mine is a #1 frame fishtail gun and another Vintager brought a #2 frame lifter (his is actually a two barrel, two gauge composed set now, a very neat combination btw). Comparing the two guns was quite a revelation for me in that the #2 gun is noticeably more substantial than mine. That lifter mechanism never fails to impress but...#2 guns would clearly be too-heavy for my upland aspirations. For targets, absolutely, but not for all day carry in the grouse woods. A valuable lesson for me, I must say.
I saw another gun there that I initially mistook for a Parker, only to discover that it was an early Philadelphia Fox Sterlingworth "pin" gun (I had forgotten about those).
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