The Long and the Short of it !

[Russ Jackson]

Thought you Gentlemen might be interested in two very neat guns ! They are a pair of PH Grade 16 Gauge Guns ! They each have their own PGCA Letter for documentation ! As much as they are the same they are much different ! PH ,Serial # 81826 is a 16 Gauge # 1 Frame gun with 32" Twist Barrels " None listed in The Parker Story " and PH , Serial # 99091 is an O Frame Gun with Factory 22" Barrels and again , none listed in the Parker Story "and the Grand total weight of this gun is 5 Lb. 8 Oz. ! I am thinking these two guns should be listed in " Parker's Found " in The Parker Pages , ,Serial # 81826 possibly as the only surviving 32" Barreled 16 Gauge PH with Twist Barrels as I found three others listed while scouring TPS , and Serial # 99091 as possibly the only 22" Barreled PH with 22" Twist Barrels !

[Paul Ehlers]

Congrat's on the 22" PH. I should have mashed the buy now button.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

great find Russ

[Brian Hornacek]

Fantastic guns!!

[Russ Jackson]

great find Russ

Thanks Harold , It is going to make a fantastic Grouse Gun , Cyl. Bore and Full ! Before Parkers I shot a Browning 20 Ga. BSS Sporter ,IC and IM ,I thought it was the perfect Grouse Getter but this gun is really smooth and the barrels carry enough forward weight to give the gun a nice balance !

[CraigThompson]

I like them both !

I wanna find an EH or NH with an uncut barrel of 24 , 26 or 28 inches !

[Harold Lee Pickens]

So Russ, have you had that 22" gun out in the field? Wondering how it would handle. I don't mind short barrels at all when grouse hunting.

[Russ Jackson]

Harold ,I haven't had it out yet ,I was hoping to take her to the dance this past Saturday but The Rut was kicking into gear so I went Archery hunting ! That ole tree stand is starting to wear me out :rotf:!

[Bill Murphy]

Right on. A short barrel EH or NH would be a find. My 27" DH 10 is very handy in the field. About 7 1/2 pounds.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Russ, the deer are definately on the move. My best friend just took a hog 13 pt in Ohio.
As you know, I have a 167 acre farm in Ohio, and will probably spend Wed afternoon sitting in a tree also--I am really not much of a bow hunter, but will probably be to hot to hunt the setters that afternoon, and I have been getting trail camera pictures of some real wallhangers.

[Russ Jackson]

Good Luck to You Harold ! They are moving here also ,I had a dandy 20 yards in front of me this morning but couldn't get him to stop for a Good Shot ! If I would have had my 270 Winchester Bow :rotf: Id bet I would have made short work of it !

[Harold Lee Pickens]

I prefer the versatile Rem 870 bow myself.

[Larry Mason]

Sweet "P's", Russ! I always duck hunt with a 16 Gauge. One of them came from you.
I sure could use a 32".................
Thanks for the pics my friend!!!

[Russ Jackson]

Good Luck to You Harold ! They are moving here also ,I had a dandy 20 yards in front of me this morning but couldn't get him to stop for a Good Shot ! If I would have had my 270 Winchester Bow :rotf: Id bet I would have made short work of it !

Well I stuck to the " Old Bow " and didn't use the Winchester Bow I mentioned in an earlier post but it finally worked out about 4:58 Last evening ! It was well past dark till I got him loaded and off to the butcher shop !:) Hes a pretty good Buck for our neck of the woods !

[Larry Frey]

Russ,
Congratulations on a very nice deer. I'm also trying to split time chasing birds with my Brittany and deer with gun and bow. Managed the eight point opening day of archery season and the eleven point opening day of landowner rifle. Pretty good year so far but I still have tags and the freezer has room for a couple more. Good luck on the rest of your season. Larry

[Russ Jackson]

Wow ,two Beautiful Bucks Larry ,CONGRATS !!!!!!!!!! I wish we could hunt for a couple of Buck , but in Pa. we are limited to one ! I hunt my own property for deer along with about a half dozen Buddies , Well at least they are Buddies in Deer Season :rotf: !!!!!!!! and on Monday , I saw nine different bucks , mostly spikes and four points ,we really need to have at some of them removed and I would enjoy a few extra days of excitement !

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Russ, Larry congratulations. It is gray, rainy and chilly--perfect day for deer to move . Leaving for my farm ASAP.

[Russ Jackson]

Good Luck Harold ! I was laying down a Scent Drag line yesterday and Flushed a Woodcock , a beautiful crisp burn't orange breast and a very long Beak , I figure a Female , she was beautiful !

[Jim DiSpagno]

Congrats Russ and Larry. Beautiful bucks. Good luck the rest of hunting season

[charlie cleveland]

great looking bucks fellows...i hope to get to go before long our season started with guns monday....will only get to use a 22 caliber up to 223 but have a 222 in hand.keep shareing ya lls stories and pictures....charlie

[Dean Romig]

My old friend Lenny and I were texting each other this morning at about 7:30 about how deer hunting conditions were about perfect - him on a ridge overlooking the sleepy town of Denmark, ME. and me on my couch nursing my second cup of coffee - when he texted "Oops gotta go."
He called me at 7:45 to tell me he had to put his phone down because he saw movement back in the whips, but that the movement turned out to be a pretty hefty 10 point buck. He downed it with a perfect neck shot. I couldn't have been happier.
Lenny thinks Parker people all wear ascots and smoke pipes.
But I love him like a brother - we learn a lot from each other.



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[charlie cleveland]

great storey and a nice buck...charlie

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Big bodied buck with small rack directly underneath me at 5:15, passed on him as ther are several 140+ class bucks running around here on the farm, I can always take a doe during gun or primitive season.

[Russ Jackson]

If you are going to get back out Harold ,try Grunting and Rattling that is how I got the one I just posted in this thread ! I had a bunch of small racked bucks out prowling the edges early in the day , in the evening I decided to pull out all the stops as our season is drawing to a close ! I sprayed one of the main scrapes with dominant buck and climbed up in my tree then I got a Estrous lure and sprayed it in the air to let the wind carry it after letting things calm down I made two different sounds of grunts using the same call with different pitch then got out my Large Rattle bag and did a series of rattling with no response I settled in for about twenty minutes and decided again to shake it up and did a second series of grunting and rattling but much more aggressively almost immediately across my six acre field in the tall Golden Rod I could see the antlers bobbing as I had a good Buck honing in on the fight about 60 Yards he stopped and turned to go back and I hit the deepest Grunt I could muster up ,he turned and about three seconds later he was standing broadside to me grunting and looking for a fight ,he got one ! A very exciting hunt ,you should give it a try if you get the chance ,it works !

[Harold Lee Pickens]

After climbing down out if my ladder stand at full dark, I had a nice rack buck silhouetted in the moonlight. I meant to bring my grunt call and bleat can with me but managed to forget them

[CraigThompson]

Right on. A short barrel EH or NH would be a find. My 27" DH 10 is very handy in the field. About 7 1/2 pounds.


The few EH or NH 28" or less guns I've gotten choke dimensions from leads me to believe a good many of them are choked shall we say more open then the norm ?

[CraigThompson]

Wow ,two Beautiful Bucks Larry ,CONGRATS !!!!!!!!!! I wish we could hunt for a couple of Buck , but in Pa. we are limited to one ! I hunt my own property for deer along with about a half dozen Buddies , Well at least they are Buddies in Deer Season :rotf: !!!!!!!! and on Monday , I saw nine different bucks , mostly spikes and four points ,we really need to have at some of them removed and I would enjoy a few extra days of excitement !

When I used to come up and hunt the Poconos with a group of Doylestown friends it was hard for a southern guy to grasp the regs in PA . One buck and a doe or two .

Heck in VA your big game stamps come with three antlerless tags and three tags for buck or doe . Then on top of that we can get unlimited antlerless bonus tags .

When I hunted Maryland just in the region I hunted I think the seasonal bag limit was 30 white tail doe and 6 buck in the three seasons combined as well as 3 Sika Stags and 6 hinds in the three seasons combined .