Parker Pages Fall 2016 Issue

[Dean Romig]

This is a reminder that the deadline for submissions for the Fall Issue is July 15.

Our library of submitted material for Parker Pages is extremely low and requires new contributions with each issue. If you're working on an article or story please keep the July 15th deadline in mind.

Please refer to page 27 of the Spring Issue or page 40 of the Summer Issue (soon to be in your mailboxes) for "Suggestions for Contributions for Parker Pages" especially for requirements for photos submitted for publication.

Thanks Very Much

Best, Dean






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[George M. Purtill]

Jesus H. Christ- I haven't even gotten my Summer issue of PP and already you are calling for submissions for the Fall issue. What a B__ buster.

[Craig Larter]

Dean: I emailed you an article today. Craig

[Dean Romig]

Thanks Craig - I received it but haven't had an opportunity to read it yet.

Thank you very much!

Best, Dean






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[Dean Romig]

Just a quick reminder - with less than three weeks til the July 15th deadline we have received only two articles for publication in the Fall Issue. Please refer to my first post on this thread if you will be contributing material for Parker Pages.

Thanks, Dean





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[Dean Romig]

Five days remaining until the July 15th deadline for contributions (articles, pictures, stories) for the Fall Issue of Parker Pages.






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[Dean Romig]

I was hoping we would have some upland hunting stories and pictures for our Fall Issue. After all, the hunting seasons for doves, grouse, woodcock, quail, pheasants and several other species begin in just a couple of months. It's always nice to see some great pictures of past hunts And read the stories that go along with them just before the opener to really get the juices flowing.

Well, maybe we'll get some for next year.

Thanks to everyone who sent contributions for this issue.

Best, Dean





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[Mills Morrison]

I sent you a quail hunting story. Did you get it?

[Dean Romig]

Yes you did Mills and I thank you for that.






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[FRANK HALSEY]

sorry about my delay. the a/c went out at house biggest heat wave we had in a while. I will get those papers to you. thanks again for all the hard work you put in. frank

[Dean Romig]

Thank you Frank.
I'm sure our members will enjoy reading about your unique 34" twenty-gauge Parker along with pictures of it but we'll just have to wait for the winter issue to see it.
We had some very 'time sensitive' advertising in the fall issue and needed to get it to the publisher right away.

Best, Dean

[allan.mclane]

My hat is doffed to Dean and the authors for producing yet another wonderful number. Thank you!:bowdown:

[Jim DiSpagno]

Got mine today and just a quick thump thru before dinner was a treat. Great job Dean as well as all contributors

[Charles Matthews]

Dean,
For an editor that was low on material, you sure did a fantastic job on this issue. Very timely pieces with hunting season just a breath away..........
Charles

[charlie cleveland]

got mine today also fixing to set down and read it...charlie

[Dean Romig]

That's great - Thanks everyone! I wasn't sure it would have arrived this quickly, but I am delighted it did - there are some time-sensitive ads and announcements in this issue.

PS, I haven't received mine yet.....

PPS... A BIG Thank You to those who contributed to this issue!






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[Bill Holcombe]

It's a good one, arrived in North Texas today. The piece on Burts gun, Dean's article on waiting through the year, and Mills hunting trip were especially enjoyable reads.

[Bill Holcombe]

Dean, on the subject of material, have you ever considered running a by issue "classic " story each issue.

[Henry McRoberts]

Great issue, arrived in the UP yesterday.

[John Taddeo]

Really enjoyed the Spiller gun story... Great job..

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Dean, I see that Primland took a full page add out! A few months ago some PGCA guys visited the resort to see what was offered, at that time Kimberly said she would like to advertise in our publication, glad to see she followed through, Gary

[Mills Morrison]

I really enjoyed Jerry Harlow's article and hope he brings his new friend to the Southern to shoot for Team Parker!

[Dean Romig]

Dean, I see that Primland took a full page add out! A few months ago some PGCA guys visited the resort to see what was offered, at that time Kimberly said she would like to advertise in our publication, glad to see she followed through, Gary


Gary, Mike Kobos, our advertising manager cultivated that ad. Mike is doing a great job of filling ad space in our fine magazine.

Dean





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[Dean Romig]

Dean, on the subject of material, have you ever considered running a by issue "classic " story each issue.


Yes Bill, I have done that, but to re-publish articles and stories from previous issues would somewhat defeat my goal of always providing fresh new material, and new authors, for each issue. I will agree that there are dozens and dozens of articles and stories from past issues that would absolutely merit publishing again but Jim Hall keeps the 'warehouse' of past issues that anyone can order from him to fill the gaps in members' collections of Parker Pages.

Neither will I publish anything that has appeared in publications other than Parker Pages. I made one exception to this rule when we published Brian Dudley's fine research article on his visit to Remington Arms in Illion to gain access to the prototype Trojan Skeet Gun for his article. What Brian found - some heretofore unknown information on the gun which was published in its entirety in Double Gun Journal - that Brian, Daniel Cote, and myself agreed could be published in Parker Pages in an abbreviated format, thereby allowing the important stuff to be published where it needed to be - Parker Pages.
But that was a unique circumstance, which of course may happen in the future, depending on the nature of the material.

I republished four articles, one for each issue of our twentieth anniversary volume, as a special tribute to Parker Pages, Volume 1, Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 and to their authors.

Special circumstances call for special departures from the norm, but I really don't plan on republishing anything from past issues unless I simply do not have enough material for a particular issue.

I will continue to solicit new material for each and every issue with sincere hopes that I won't have that last-minute crunch-time scramble through past issues to find what I would consider to be the right article (theme/purpose/word-count, etc.) for re-publication.

Thanks for asking Bill,
Dean






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[Bill Holcombe]

Yes Bill, I have done that, but to re-publish articles and stories from previous issues would somewhat defeat my goal of always providing fresh new material and new authors for each issue. I will agree that there are dozens and dozens of articles and stories from past issues that would absolutely merit publishing again but Jim Hall keeps the 'warehouse' of past issues that anyone can order from him to fill the gaps in members' collections of Parker Pages.

Neither will I publish anything that has appeared in publications other than Parker Pages. I made one exception to this rule when we published Brian Dudley's fine research article on his visit to Remington Arms in Illion to gain access to the prototype Trojan Skeet Gun for his article. What Brian found - some heretofore unknown information on the gun that Brian, Daniel Cote, and myself agreed could be published in Parker Pages in an abbreviated format, thereby allowing the important stuff to be published where it needed to be - Parker Pages.
But that was a unique circumstance which may happen in the future, depending on the nature of the material.

I republished four articles, one for each issue of our twentieth anniversary volume, as a special tribute to Parker Pages, Volume 1, Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 and to their authors.

Special circumstances call for special departures from the norm, but I really don't plan on republishing anything from past issues unless I simply do not have enough material for a particular issue.

I will continue to solicit new material for each and every issue with sincere hopes that I won't have that last-minute crunch-time scramble through past issues to find what I would consider to be the right article (theme/purpose/word-count, etc.) for re-publication.

Thanks for asking Bill,
Dean






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That makes sense, and I definitely agree about continuing to get new information and such. I just had enjoyed the anniversary articles that I wanted to suggest it!

[Mills Morrison]

For anyone who enjoys Parker Pages (that's all of us, right?), and who enjoys the various books on Parkers, I recommend you contact Jimmy Hall and get the back issues. I have about half of them and intend to get the other half when I have some extra change. There are some good articles back there.

[Bill Holcombe]

For anyone who enjoys Parker Pages (that's all of us, right?), and who enjoys the various books on Parkers, I recommend you contact Jimmy Hall and get the back issues. I have about half of them and intend to get the other half when I have some extra change. There are some good articles back there.

I have every intention of doing so, but I just haven't gotten around to it.

I did pick up a couple of back issues that appeared for sale on ebay a while back and they were very enjoyable!

[Dean Romig]

Right Mills, and I will add that the majority of the past issues of Parker Pages contain information, much of which has been discovered since the publication of The Parker Story (our Parker bible) and isn't found anywhere else. These past issues are a priceless source of new Parker information and facts as well as the information found in the earliest issues.





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[Dean Romig]

Imagine my chagrin when this morning I discovered that on the cover photo of this Fall Issue I had misidentified Craig Larter's CHE as a ten-guage gun when it is in fact a twelve-gauge.

My most humble apologies to Craig Larter and to our readership.





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[George M. Purtill]

Got mine today and I never would have even noticed that Larter's CHE was labeled as a 10 gauge. I bet Craig WISHES it was a 10 gauge!!
Great issue again Dean-o.

[Craig Larter]

Dean: Great issue----- no apology required. George is almost correct I would like a 10ga CHE also :biglaugh::biglaugh:

[Mills Morrison]

3 frame 12 gauges are great guns.

[edgarspencer]

I'm really enjoying my PP. I especially like Craig's CHE. I am sure others have seen some of the anomalies Craig speaks about, and it's fun just wondering how they came about. My 30" grade 2 16ga is one like Craig's, with the mysterious numbering. The gun is 76544, but the hammers are stamped 77544.

[Bill Holcombe]

3 frame 12 gauges are great guns.

That they are. 3 frame 10s might be even better :)

[Greg Baehman]

Got my issue, too . . . wonderful, as always! I always like to read the PGCA Doubles Club listing as I like seeing my name and reliving the moment :whistle: But what really struck me as phenomenal, and one that I hadn't noticed before, was the double one of our members accomplished many moons ago -- and that was a double on geese . . . with a VHE .410!!! You have to admit, that is one h--- of an accomplishment! :bowdown::bowdown:

[Dean Romig]

My guess is that they were shot from a pit blind in a mowed cornfield with decoys all around him. Not too hard to take head shots at geese settling in on cupped wings :rolleyes:

I once tried to take a longbeard with my 28 ga. Repro but when Grandaddy came in to about fifteen yards I was cuttin' ZZZZZZZZZ's..............how embarrassing!!






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[Jerry Harlow]

Imagine my chagrin when this morning I discovered that on the cover photo of this Fall Issue I had misidentified Craig Larter's CHE as a ten-guage gun when it is in fact a twelve-gauge.

My most humble apologies to Craig Larter and to our readership.





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Dean,

At least you did not identify it as an L.C. Smith as the American Rifleman did to the Parker in the L.C. Smith story. The gauge does not matter. Being an editor is an almost impossible job, because striving for perfection will drive one crazy after you discover something you should have caught. It is never a big deal, it happens. Thanks for the good work! (Still waiting for my copy.)

[Mike Franzen]

Got my copy and its hats off to you Dean for another fine job. The PGCA is lucky to have you doing this work.

[Christian Gish]

My Parker Pages arrived in SO. CA today. FRED