if i could have SANTA bring me

[charlie cleveland]

i would have him bring me a new parker in b grade and it would have to be a 8 ga with 40 inch barrels and 4 inch chambers...what a turkey gun i m gona have when SANTA comes... now what do you want SANTA to bring you... charlie

[Mills Morrison]

Charlie beat me to a Parker 8 gauge. How about a bill from Congress legalizing 8 gauges for duck hunting again?

[Rick Losey]

Santa might be afraid of how high you could deer hunt with that one Charlie

:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

[Eldon Goddard]

That is pretty good Charlie but I would get a CH 8 gauge with Bernard steel. Imagine that Bernard pattern on an 8 gauge.

[ForrestArmstrong]

I'd like something simple & modest like 410 AAHE on a 0000 frame.

[Matt Valinsky]

I'd be happy to unwrap a GH 16ga. Even better a 16ga. G hammer gun. Although, I wouldn't be unhappy with a 12ga. G hammer gun.

[Mills Morrison]

Santa is bringing me a back action lifter

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

Charlie: I would settle for a really well used VH 20 ga. But I would like it to have been used by Annie Oakley. Thomas

[Gerald McPherson]

500 acres of flat land and 50 coveys of Quail and bring Ole Spanky Jr or Scooter back. 50 birds to the covey will do for the rest of the season. Wild birds only. Oh yes and don't forget a truck load of 12 gauge shells in No 6 1oz shot. My old vh will do me from here on out. That's is not too much is it? Merry Christmas to All. Gerald

[Rich Anderson]

How about Peace on Earth and goodwill toward man??? Peace could be administered by any hammergun grade 4 and above. In reality there are no guns I desire at the moment as I have bigger plans in the very near future.

[wayne goerres]

I had asked santa for a 50 BMG and a new cheese slicer (mine broke). The fifty is on its way and will be here Friday (to heavy for santa's slay so Ups is delivering it). I didn't get the cheese slicer. Must have been a little to much to ask.

[Rich Anderson]

Wayne what in the world will you do with a 50BMG? A pocket full of ammo will weigh you down:)

[wayne goerres]

I was told that you can kill chevy's with it. The seller probably doesn't like GM products.

[Ray Masciarella]

New unopened box of 4" black powder 8 ga shells so I could go turkey hunting with my pal Charlie.

[Mills Morrison]

Santa is actually bringing me two vintage 8 gauge shells, but that does not really count.

How about a new line of 8 gauge shells from RST?

[edgarspencer]

I'd love to get the winter issue of the Parker Pages.

[Larry Frey]

I'd love to get the winter issue of the Parker Pages.

Edgar,
How did you and I get on the naughty list?:rolleyes:

[edgarspencer]

Edgar,
How did you and I get on the naughty list?:rolleyes:
Larry, all I have to do is wake up, and I piss someone off.

[Dave Suponski]

Guys...You really want to explain here how you got on the list!.....:rolleyes:
BTW Terry I enjoyed your article on Parker vises.

[wayne goerres]

I had to email mary and I just recived the autumn issue. Is the winter issue out?

[edgarspencer]

Guys...You really want to explain here how you got on the list!.....:rolleyes:
BTW Terry I enjoyed your article on Parker vises. I really can't imagine how you got your copy. If anyone deserves to be on the list, it's you!

I had to email mary and I just recived the autumn issue. Is the winter issue out?

Wayne, it's out for the chosen ones; guys like Stosh Suponski.

[Rich Anderson]

Its out, read & recycled.

[Dean Romig]

Waddaya mean recycled??? You throw Parker Pages out?? They're extremely valuable ya know! Collector's items even...

[Dean Romig]

I would be satisfied with a CHE twenty-eight bore with a skeleton buttplate on a straight grip stock (light colored French walnut please), fully checkered forend, twenty-eight inch Bernard barrels, no safety, twin ivories choked cyl & mod, roundelle engraved with flighting woodcock on the left and a flushing cock grouse on the right.

Oh, and high original condition in its original, nearly mint, trunk case.....

Somebody pinch me please!!!!!!!

[wayne goerres]

Dose one of them even exist.

[Dean Romig]

Parkers - The stuff dreams are made of... ;)

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

It's really a pretty simple wish, 12ga AA Hammer gun in any condition, but a for real wish I wish everyone a wonderful Xmas and a great New Year and good health something us grey beards need! Gary

[Rich Anderson]

Dean I have to hand it to you when you dream you dream BIG:rotf:
I do have something close to what your looking for if your VERY,VERY good. CHE, Rondelle engraveing, straight stock, 28inch Bernard ejector barrels.

I can't come up with a gun I want let alone need....it's a damn shame I say:banghead:

[Bill Murphy]

A nice little Trojan, ten gauge, short chambered, light 29" Trojan Steel barrels with no extension, about 3-12, with twin ivories on a flat rib, choked about .010 and .025, straight grip, straight grain English walnut with a fairly simple checkering patten, skeleton butt, about 7 1/4 pounds. Cased in a simple VC style case with room for about four boxes of RST 1 1/8 ounce sixes.

[Eric Eis]

For me it's finding that 16 gauge Damascus ejector 0 frame 30" barrel to fit on my A grade so I can make it complete as it was born, AHE 16 ga with 30" Damascus ejector barrels. That's all I want plus to wish everyone a Happy Holiday. Eric

[Rich Anderson]

Ive had a revelation. IF Santa could bring me something it would be a snow blower:shock: I have just finished shoveling the driveway again and have been enjoying my morning coffee with 800mg of Motrin and a heating pad:eek: it's amazing one can work up a sweat at a balmy 2 degrees:banghead:

[Dean Romig]

Keep at it Rich.... It'll keep you young.

As they say - "At our age, anything that doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Ya,...right!

[Rich Anderson]

Keep at it Rich.... It'll keep you young.



No thanks, Iv'e worked to long and to hard at becoming old and crusty:rotf:

[wayne goerres]

Hang in there. Global warming may take care of the problem for you. Than you wont have to waist your wish on a snow blower and you can wish for another parker.

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. This was posted on another Forum with thanks to Tom Carter and Dr. Drew Hause


The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts...
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said "It’s really all right."

"I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night.
It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me."

"My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
"My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am."

"I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile."
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.

"I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat."

"I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother.
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."


LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
30th Naval Construction Regiment
OIC, Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum, Iraq
__________________

[Rich Anderson]

Thomas THANK YOU for sharing that. We must NEVER forget our brave men and women who fight for our freedoms every day and give up their time with family and all to often give us the ultimate sacrifice in the name of freedom.

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

Charlie: I didn't mean to hi jack your tread. Thomas

[Mark Ouellette]

Thomas,

I think you put the frosting on this cake!

Mark

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

Charlie: I see that I misspelled Thread but you will have to forgive me for my Norwiegen starts to take over. I learned that from my dad. the measurement thirty three and a third was pronounced tirty tree and a tird. Uff Da Thomas

[Frank Cronin]

Charlie: Norwiegen starts to take over. I learned that from my dad. the measurement thirty three and a third was pronounced tirty tree and a tird.

I have heard that accent growing up. My grandfather came here to the USA from Sweden at the age 16 who could not utter a single word of English. Swedes could not pronounce the letters TH either...

"Okay tden" was something he would commonly say when finishing a conversation.

[Mills Morrison]

I was talking to Dale Edmonds about another project the other day and he said he has restored LC Smith 8 gauges with Chain Damascus barrels. Mama Mia! I doubt Santa thinks I have been that good

[wayne goerres]

I hope santa is good to everyone tomorrow and no one is disappointed. Marry Christmas and a happy and prosporous new year.

[charlie cleveland]

mills would not that bea grand surprise to get a lc smith 8 ga for christmas instead of a parker 8... charlie

[Dean Romig]

mills would not that bea grand surprise to get a lc smith 8 ga for christmas instead of a parker 8... charlie

.... more like a consolation prize :whistle:

[chris dawe]

It's really a pretty simple wish, 12ga AA Hammer gun in any condition, but a for real wish I wish everyone a wonderful Xmas and a great New Year and good health something us grey beards need! Gary

Gary ,I'm working on something of an AA hammer gun for a stateside customer ...think its a 16 though :whistle:,the wood is coming along pretty good.

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Chris, Never get tired of looking at your wood work, I have talked and sent photos to Brian and we have pretty much nailed down the type of engraving, I need to send a side photo of Miss Mattie when I get back home in January, Hope you and your family has Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Looking for a finished project in 2014, Thanks Gary

[chris dawe]

Thanks Gary ,were having a great day (bit of a sore head this morning though:crying: ) the stock is quite a bit further along than the pics show ,ready for carving and checkering actually .

[James Brown]

Here you go. Santa did good. 28 ga. Q1, Q2.
James

[Mills Morrison]

James, you sure did good

Back action lifter found under our tree this morning

[Mills Morrison]

Santa brought my wife a VH 16 gauge with single trigger. See you all at Drakes and the Southern!

[CraigThompson]

I asked for a 125 acre piece of property in lower Dorchester County Maryland for hunting Sika Deer . But alas I didn't see a deed anywhere !

[Kenny Graft]

James...That's a nice scarce repro for Christmas! I would have liked a repro 20 BHE with double triggers...)-: My birthday is jan-2 I can keep a wishin....

[Larry Mason]

An Au Pair. For ten years my wife and children ask me what I would like for Christmas. I have asked for an au pair. I have not received one yet. Nor, even a Visiting Angel!
Merry Christmas to all.

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Mills, What is the see # of your back action? Gary

[Mills Morrison]

1079

[Daryl Corona]

A 32" straight gripped 28ga., any grade. But since it was'nt under the tree this year I'll settle for good health for me and my loved ones including all PGCA members and their families.

[Dean Romig]

Gary ,I'm working on something of an AA hammer gun for a stateside customer ...think its a 16 though :whistle:,the wood is coming along pretty good.


Chris, I would like to know if that stock you have showed us is a new one made by you from a blank or if you are simply recutting an original Parker Bros. stock.

[Jim DiSpagno]

Dean, that stock and fore end is cut from a blank chosen by the customer and Chris together. Chris is a real craftsman.

[Dean Romig]

Chris is a real craftsman.


I'll say he is!

[Larry Stauch]

I finally got that 30" 16 gauge DHE I've been wanting!

[Larry Stauch]

I finally got the 16 gauge DHE with 30" barrels I've been wanting!

[Rich Anderson]

Very nice Larry congrats:bowdown:

[Daryl Corona]

Ditto what Rich said Larry.:bowdown:

[Craig Larter]

Well I asked Santa for a Galazan wall thickness gauge ---I must have been good and found it under the tree. In the past I would have Doug Turnbull measure a prospective purchases but it was a pain due to the fact it is a 25 mile round trip run. Anyhow it is a wonderful gauge and very easy to use and from what others report very accurate. I did measure all 4 of my damascus 12 bores and they all came in at .032" plus minimum----another very nice Christmas present!!!!

[Mills Morrison]

Just back from Moultrie, GA, for Julia's and my annual quail hunt. Julia shot her new 16 gauge VH. I shot my Parker Repro which is also new to us in 2013. This topped off a great Christmas

[Russ Jackson]

Mills ,MERRY CHRISTMAS ! Looks like you folks enjoyed yourselves ! Wish my Wife would hunt with me ,she just isn't a bit interested ! Gee I wouldn't even mind buying another Parker for her !:whistle: Russ

[wayne goerres]

Russ I bough my wife a smith K 22 for her birthday. She fired it once. I enjoyed that gun a lot. Mills Where are the birds. I know there still some quail in Ga.

[wayne goerres]

I am still waiting on my Christmas present. Fed Ex seems to have misplaced my scope.

[Mills Morrison]

Wayne, the birds are in Moultrie Ga. Most were released, but they flew REALLY well

[Mills Morrison]

Mail service has stunk this holiday season. All of the important stuff arrived after a fashion though

[FRANK HALSEY]

I got my gift alittle early. It was the 20 ga. Sbt SC Parker than I won in the last auction. I have shot it and love it. Thanks to the wife for not yelling to much. She knew how much I wanted it. Frank

[charlie cleveland]

good on you..glad santa came through for you..i like the twenty also....charlie

[Bill Murphy]

Frank, I promise I have not forgotten to copy and send the info on your new Christmas gun. Please keep me on the list as first chance at that prize, since I have been pursuing it for decades. I have congratulated you before, and I will again, now.

[FRANK HALSEY]

Thank you Bill. You will have first "crack" at it if I ever sell. Thanks again for the info that is coming. I hope to see you at the spring sxs. Frank

[David Hendrey]

Ok, here it got all my new Parker friends. I know that it's well after Christmas but maybe we can start wishing for this year. I wish for everyone to have there dream Parker 8 gauge to 410 with all the bells and whistles. Oh and we can't forget the very special place to hunt ducks, goose, turkey's, doves, the ruffed grouse.

Todd
Aka
Candyman