Parker vs L.C. Smith guns

[Researcher]

All of the vintage North American doubles have their issues but while Alexander T. Brown's rotary bolt was a good idea, much of the rest of the hammerless L.C. Smith design was not. Read Dewey's assessment of them and you'd send them all down the river of commerce.

I own all the others, Parker, Fox (all three companies), Ithaca, Baker, Remington & Lefever and many of the more obscure makes Tobin, Baltimore Arms, the American Arms Co. Whitmore, Parry, etc., but no L.C. Smiths.

[Stepmac]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

All of the vintage North American doubles have their issues but while Alexander T. Brown's rotary bolt was a good idea, much of the rest of the hammerless L.C. Smith design was not. Read Dewey's assessment of them and you'd send them all down the river of commerce.

I own all the others, Parker, Fox (all three companies), Ithaca, Baker, Remington & Lefever and many of the more obscure makes Tobin, Baltimore Arms, the American Arms Co. Whitmore, Parry, etc., but no L.C. Smiths.

I admire your shotgun collection, Researcher. I've got a Remington 1900, an American Arms Co (Knickerbocher) 20, Fox Sterly 12, Parker GH and SBT (C grade), Lefever I grade (Keith Kershur gun), Astra 12 nice engraving), W.C. Scott (It's in the mail), 2 Browning Auto fives (12 & 16), 2 Winchester Model 12s (12 &16) an SKB O/U 20, Miroku O/U 12, A Remy Model 31 TC...That's about it for shotguns. The prettiest one is the Auto five sixteen and the one I like to shoot the most is the Winy Model 12 16. It's a tight F choke. I also like to shoot the Remy 1900, it's light. My best gun is a mint artillery Lugar w holster. My great uncle got it off of a German officer in WWI. I asked him for details of how he got it. His reply, "He didn't need it anymore".