Parker Sporting Clays Gun

[todd allen]

I was thinking the other day how cool it would be to have a dedicated SC gun that was a SxS. I shoot an AL 391 Beretta Auto on clays, and would need something with similar dynamics to pull this off.
Looking thru my safe, I think I found the perfect candidate. An old 1906 ejector gun, that came out of an estate. I'm not in this gun that much, (2700 bucks) so I thought I would post the questions here.
#1: What recoil pad?
Add a palm swell?
Add a BT FE?
What about choke tubes?
Here's some pics of the gun I'm talking about:
32" BBLs and great dimensions to start with
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070842.jpg

Nice and tight, with pretty engraving (I like that)
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070838.jpg

Nice wood (I like that too)
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070835.jpg

Shown here with recoil pad that it will need
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070841.jpg

This will unfortunately have to go
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070840.jpg

I will save this as a souvenir
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070845.jpg

Underside, showing the cool grip cap
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070837.jpg

Does this look like the correct angle?
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070844.jpg

Now to add the pad
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070843.jpg

What's the best way to turn this into a beavertail FE? Add wood to this one, or start from scratch?
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070846.jpg



I realise I should have started this post at the beginning of the month, but thanks for any input you might have.

[Robert Delk]

Good Lord!! I hope you are just kidding! Oh,wait .. I just read the last line. Just about had a stroke.

[Harry Collins]

I do hope you are pulling our leg. No need to do anything to that cheep old SXS than shoot it. If it has tight chokes feed it 1 oz spreader loads and for that matter I shoot nothing but 7/8 oz and 1 oz loads at sporting clays.

Kindest, Harry

[E Robert Fabian]

Todd, could you find me one of those in the 3K range, Thanks

[todd allen]

Harry, it has wildly different chokes. An appox IC in the rt BBL, and a very tight full in the Lt.
I don't know what the original owner had in mind when he ordered it, but I like the radical difference from front to back trigger.
Anyway, I'll let Briley's sort it out.

[Dave Suponski]

You're not serious....right? My sporting gun is a GHE 16 gauge with 30" tubes choked .022 and .024 with double triggers. When need be I use spreaders in the old girl. The gun had an old crushed pat on it so I just had a silvers put on it and away I went.

[todd allen]

Here's a pic of the watertable:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070847.jpg

[Harry Collins]

Todd,

You've got to stop. I'm drooling all over myself. I have several Parkers choked that way and I like it.

Harry

[George Lander]

Anyone who would do what you propose to that fine old DH should be drawn & quartered

Just My Humble Opinion.......George

[Mike McKinney]

Please don't!!!

[Bill Murphy]

George, that's no DH.

[E Robert Fabian]

Any chance we could see some close up pics of the receiver?

[ED J, MORGAN]

Lovelyy BHE. Happy April 1st to you also.

[todd allen]

Any chance we could see some close up pics of the receiver?

I will be away until this weekend, but I'll get some close-ups of the reciever when I get back.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

George,

I've never seen a D grade with FDL carving in the grip before. Maybe I'm wrong....

DLH

[scott kittredge]

I was thinking the other day how cool it would be to have a dedicated SC gun that was a SxS. I shoot an AL 391 Beretta Auto on clays, and would need something with similar dynamics to pull this off.
Looking thru my safe, I think I found the perfect candidate. An old 1906 ejector gun, that came out of an estate. I'm not in this gun that much, (2700 bucks) so I thought I would post the questions here.
#1: What recoil pad?
Add a palm swell?
Add a BT FE?
What about choke tubes?
Here's some pics of the gun I'm talking about:
32" BBLs and great dimensions to start with
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070842.jpg

Nice and tight, with pretty engraving (I like that)
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070838.jpg

Nice wood (I like that too)
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070835.jpg

Shown here with recoil pad that it will need
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070841.jpg

This will unfortunately have to go
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070840.jpg

I will save this as a souvenir
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070845.jpg

Underside, showing the cool grip cap
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070837.jpg

Does this look like the correct angle?
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070844.jpg

Now to add the pad
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070843.jpg

What's the best way to turn this into a beavertail FE? Add wood to this one, or start from scratch?
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070846.jpg



I realise I should have started this post at the beginning of the month, but thanks for any input you might have.

can' what to see what it looks like when your finished :corn: scott

[Rich Anderson]

Todd bring the old girl to the U.P. shoot and I'll show ya how to shoot her just the way she is:)

Destry you forget my DHE 20 with the FDL.

[Francis Morin]

Even old pipeline welders know some basic carpentry and cabinetry. I have a 12" DeWalt Compound Miter saw, and I use the same trick I do when making rip or cross cuts to length on paneling with either a sabre saw or a circular saw- Good side (if there is a choice) down and I mark the layout with heavy painter's masking tape before snapping the chalk line- that keeps the tearing from the blade's teeth from shredding the cut. When you use a table saw or a power miter bow, as shown, as the blade revolution is opposite that of a circular saw, then you put the good side up on the table or frame--

That being said, I hope that was a "gag" foto and not for real. I recall fotos of the Winchester Custom shop circa 1980 in a SC article about the Model 21- the stocker was cutting the butt to a scribed line on masking tape and he was using a Band Saw- not a Miter Box- I figured he might just have known what he was doing.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Rich,

I remember your DHE with the FDL but still remain unconvinced.


DLH

[Dean Romig]

What is a "FDL"??

[Chris Travinski]

Fleur de lis

[Dean Romig]

Thanks Chris. I went back to destry's first mention of FDL in regard to the stock "carving". I had never seen fleur-de-lis abbreviated before.

[todd allen]

Here you go. The essential Parker Target Gun:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/luckydogx2/P1070741.jpg

[Dean Romig]

very interesting.