Pheasant Fest and Parker Test

[Bruce Day]

Pheasants Forever will have its annual Pheasant Fest and Quail Unlimited meeting in Kansas City Feb 19,20,21. We will be there again in the upland hunting area and will exhibit about 50 interesting Parkers of all grades, gauges and years.

The 30 foot long booth will be manned by Charlie Herzog, Tom Wooden, Dave Weber, Todd Kaltenbach, Dick Dow, Russ Lindsay, Randy Davis, Ed Morgan and myself. The 2016 raffle gun will be on display and tickets will be sold.

We will be displaying the special Damascus Parker made to shoot the .50 cal BMG designed by John Browning in World War 1.

[Bill Murphy]

The 50 BMG case seems to be a bit loose in the chamber.

[Dean Romig]

Bruce, Charlie, Tom, Dave, Todd, Dick, Russ, Randy, and Ed - Thank you guys so much for all you do to bring The Parker Gun to the forefront at the Pheasant Fest each year! Your hard work and dedication is appreciated by all and your display is probably the "Best of Show" every time!

Again, Thanks!






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[Dean Romig]

By the way... will that Grade-4 .50 cal Damascus gun pattern them all inside a 30" circle at forty yards?





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[Bruce Day]

Don't know, I'll see. I'm having some 50 cal ammo shipped up from Mexico. They have a surplus down there.

The Parker order and stock books show a number of these guns. I think several have been sold at Julia's.

[Mills Morrison]

Tell us about the 2016 Raffle Gun. Better yet, post some photos of it

[Bill Holcombe]

Don't know, I'll see. I'm having some 50 cal ammo shipped up from Mexico. They have a surplus down there.

The Parker order and stock books show a number of these guns. I think several have been sold at Julia's.

Thanks for working the booth Bruce to you and the others. I am curious how shooting a .50bmg through a parker would go.

[John Campbell]

... I am curious how shooting a .50bmg through a parker would go.

I predict "painfully."

And... perhaps disastrously, considering the stock head split of the pictured gun, if it is used.

[Bruce Day]

I'll take and post pictures of the raffle gun. Or people can fondle it there. Its not like we set up a no westbound crossing border at the Mississippi. Dick is coming in from California and Todd and Tom from Houston because we are such a fun bunch and we have good barbeque here. Ed comes in from Galena Ill, the birthplace of that great American, U.S. Grant.

I suspect the stock head will hold. It has a lot of Elmers and roofing nails in it and has held for the last 20 years. If it doesn't , I have a little H&H that I can shoot. Some people like English guns.


OOPS! Galena Ill, the residence, ( not birthplace of Gen. Grant) Thanks Fred. Ohio is where another great American , Gen. William T.Sherman , was born. President of Louisiana State University, Union general who shortened the war, and postwar General of the Army.

[Fred Preston]

General Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio (down on the River).

[wayne goerres]

Has anyone got an extra set of 12 to 50BMG chamber mates for sale. I can probable come up with a Belgium Parker's to try it out in.

[Frank Cronin]

By the way... will that Grade-4 .50 cal Damascus gun pattern them all inside a 30" circle at forty yards?.

How about 2,000 yards?? :rotf:

A .50 cal BMG cartridge pressure is about 55,000 PSI.:shock:

The stock obviously didn't survive the recoil of 12,000+ ft lbs of muzzle energy but the barrels did!

[Bruce Day]

OMG I hope nobody really thinks I shot a 50 cal BMG round through a Parker!

The recoil of the twin 50's I flew with made the aircraft move in flight. I've shot a HUMVEE mounted 50 and it was a blast , however I would hate putting one to my shoulder. I can't imagine shooting a shoulder mounted 50 that did not have a recoil reducing piston stock.

I figured I would give you fellows back east something to think about other than snow.

Off toward the southwest to hunt quail in a couple days. Supposed to warm into the 60's. Tee shirts and following Bert.

[Richard Flanders]

I bet Mr. Chapo would be kind enough to have his colleagues sell you any spare .50's he has in stock. I hear tell he has a guaranteed paperwork-free source. I will also offer to test said .50cal Parker on the xxxxcicle this winter if you want to send it this way - I have some ammo in stock.

[calvin humburg]

That is one fine look'en EP who's is it? Did I say that's my favorite dog in the perfect color.