My 28-gauge Soon-To-Be Favorite Go-To

[Dean Romig]

Here's what I'm starting with...
It's a Parker Repro 28 gauge with DT, BTFE, Q1/Q2 26" PG that I bought easily ten years ago for my dearly departed Kathy...

[Dean Romig]

Kathy loved her little gun...

The stock with Kathy’s initials was a take-off stock I bought for the gun, shortened it, added the pad and had my jeweler engrave it in the style that Parker Bros. engraved Jessie Alvord Bishop’s initials in DHE 28 gauge 149020 in 1908.

The look on Kathy’s face was after she missed an easy shot at Addieville.

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[Dean Romig]

But I prefer a straight grip and I wanted a second set of barrels. So with the help of some friends here I bought a Repro straight grip stock but I needed a SG trigger guard and I found one of those too.
And I bought a second set of 26" barrels choked IC/MOD.
Geoffroy Gourned engraved the serial number of Kathy's gun on the SG trugger guard and he stylistically engraved the oval on the PG stock with Kathy's initials and the oval on the SG stock with my initials. The gun will wear the straight stock as long as I have it and my daughters and grandchildren will decide when and if it will wear the PG stock after I'm gone.

More pics to come in days and weeks following.

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[BertramEdmonston]

Lovely gun and nice that you are using it.

[Dean Romig]

A few more pictures…
First is a serving spoon from the silverware my Dad bought for my Mum on their Silver Anniversary. I sent the spoon to Geoffroy as a pattern with the stocks I sent him.

Then the buttstocks with the BTFE.

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[Dean Romig]

Barrels - The Q1 Q2 barrels are original to Kathy’s gun.


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[Dean Romig]

PG trigger guard is original to the gun.


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