What are your most memorable hunts with a Parker?

[Craig Larter]

I have had a bunch of memorable hunts with a Parker but top on my list is a limit of big ducks with my 10ga AH. Second is a my late season hunt a few years back with friend Mark Kircher using my CHE. How about you??

[Mills Morrison]

When I took a turkey with my 8 gauge

[Rich Anderson]

My first hunt with Gunner's gun. I got the first grouse I ever shot at with it.

[Fred Lauer]

The only times my Chesapeake Sal ever pointed pheasants was when I was shooting my 12 ga. Trojan. It collected both of them. Odd thing is it was in the same field in two different years. Also I normally shoot pheasant with a 16 but chose the 12 those days. Dear old Sal has flushed plenty of birds but has never pointed one since. Thanks, I haven't thought about that for a while.

[charlie cleveland]

myfavorite hunt was when i took a deer with my 8 ga lifter with the pumpkin ball load i made myself..secound huny most favorite was the turkey i took with a fa loomis 8 ga at 67 steps...charlie

[Marty Kohler]

My sons and I just love to decoy and work whistlers into a specific area of the rig.....This day we had a triple retrieve with three different dogs......each dog swimming about ten feet behind the other and all birds brought to hand ...special

[Dean H Hanson]

I will only have one... this year. After acquiring Parkers for my brother and myself this year, we choose mid November to test our skills without having to "guide" others. Turns out I was on target for the weekend, much to his enjoyment. He never got a good shot, and doesn't care. It was just him and I, two VH 16's and Northern Wisconsin.

[Jean Swanson]

A hunt near Forest City ,Maine with my two dogs---Belle and Meg----with Lance Wheaton and Tom Wooden several years ago.

We hit a flight that had come in during the night, the limit of woodcock was 3 per person, around 10 am I asked ,"How many birds do we have?". Tom said none, Lance said one and I said seven. We broke up and I had not walked more than 100 feet when Meg went on point, I flushed the bird and said to the others---"We are all Done !"

We still talk about that hunt. I had my PHE -24"--28 gauge along with the best two, woodcock and grouse, Brits I ever owned---Meg & Belle

I had great hunts with those two dogs and when I retired from the Board , the PGCA gave me an oil panting of them of which I enjoy on a daily basis.

[calvin humburg]

When I went with Bruce Day, Charlie Herzog and Richard Flanders. Nothing but Parkers. Richard and I rode together enjoyed the visit. Took Charlie Cleveland hunting it was fun as well. The one I went on yesterday with my boy was capital. Sam made a beautiful point Nett (with a J) drew feathers on a tough kansas rooster. Hmmmm I guess all of them. ch

[Dean Romig]

I have so many favorites I wouldn't even know where to start. I've written about some of them and Austin published them in Parker Pages years ago. I have accumulated many more since those. One that comes immediately to mind is one of the first times I took my grandson Cameron to grouse camp with me. I knocked down a nice grouse and he hit the ground running pretty close to Cam. I hollered "Grab him Cam!" and Cam gave chase and dived at the grouse coming up with only a handful of tail feathers and a surprised look on his face. I put my Parker down and sprinted (funny picture there) after the bird and finally grabbed him by the body this time. We had lots of laughs over that one and it is still a favorite story at grouse camp.

In the second picture that white spot is the skin of the bird's tail where the feathers used to be :whistle:





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[John Davis]

This past January when Mike Franzen came down to hunt. He scored what I refer to as a Parker Hat Trick. A duck, a quail and a snipe; all in one day; each with a Parker shotgun. Hats off to him.

[Russ Jackson]

The most memorable hunt is how the question was posted not the Best or happiest but this is my most memorable hunt ,it took place a few years back ! Chip ,my Old Britt loved to hunt Woodcock more than anything else in the World it seemed and along with that he loved dining out at Burger King after our hunts ! His favorite was a Burger Fries and a Coke ! Chip had been feeling poorly and at fifteen I knew his time was running out so I decided one warm Fall day to take him Woodcocking shoot my little 410 and hopefully get one last Woodcock point ,and retrieve for the Old Fellow and off for lunch ! Well we went to one of our favorite spots which was only a short drive and a feww hundred feet off the road ,Chip hit the ground slowly and it was a pleasure to hear his bell ,we crossed a small opening on our way to one of the small ponds when I heard Chips bell no longer ,coming out of the crabapples I could see him on point at the top of the small breastwork ,I circled around in front of him up came the Bird and I took it with the IC Right Barrel ,Chip released and brought it back to hand after a Good Petting and a few photos ,I picked the Old Man up and carried him up to the Jeep ,I knew it was the end of a Great Fifteen Year Friendship ! Off we went to Lunch ,Burgers Fries and Coke all the way around and the old guy drank every last drop !

[Dean Romig]

That would sure top my list Russ. What a great memory for you.





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[Harold Lee Pickens]

Wow, that's alot of memories, old dogs, and old friends to reflect on. One day, I scored the Ohio grand slam with my 1 frame VH 16, my first Parker.
I took 2 pheasants over my dogs, one of which I dropped in the middle of a pond and old Shiner(setter) made a great water retrieve. Then on into the strip mine area where I took 3 woodcock and 3 grouse, another of which required a water retrieve, as I dropped it in an old strip pit. After a little coaxing, old Speck went swimming and retrieved the grouse. A hard day to forget for sure.

[Brad Boyer]

My most memorable hunt was my first quail killed...And with Granddad's B Grade 12 Damascus....Hunting with my friend John Dimmick on their land in West Frankfort, Il.....Had a straight away, brought it down with the first shot.. Which was a miracle considering it is choked F and F....My next most memorable are shooting doubles in quail with my 20 and 28 Parker Reproductions....

[Phil Yearout]

My favorite hunt with a Parker would have been my first one a few years back: my "new" little 16ga Trojan, an ounce of 6's, and a nice fat prairie rooster...

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[Greg Baehman]

My most memorable hunt with a Parker was the day my setter Winston stopped to point a woodcock while retrieving another woodcock. The 2nd bird flushed while I still had my camera in my right hand and my 28-ga. Repro resting in the crook of my left arm.

[Greg Baehman]

My 2nd most memorable day afield with a Parker was the day I doubled on woodcock with one of my 28-ga. Repros.

[John Dallas]

It's hard to comprehend that a dog can smell a second bird with one in his mouth, but I've heard of it several times

[Pete Lester]

I have never bettered my first experience with a Parker in 1984. Didn't know much about them, bought a good condition 12ga 28" Trojan with lots of case. Took it duck hunting, made a sneak on some sitting ducks, dropped a Black. Went over picked the duck up, looked up and some mallards were crossing right left at a solid 40 yards. Still holding the duck I rested the forend on my forearm, led them as best I could and dropped a Greenhead with my second shot. Not a true double but a dead duck with the first shot from each barrel. I was mighty impressed and I still have the gun.

[calvin humburg]

I don't know Pete. I think that might call for the invention of the silver plated doubles pin. I mean, a passing duck with another duck in hand pretty salty I'd say. ch

[John Dallas]

Well, we have 1 1/2 frames, why not a 1 1/2 pin?

[calvin humburg]

Oops, this kindle and I are kinda enemy's most of the time.

[calvin humburg]

:eek::whistle:

[Dean Romig]

:corn:





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[chris dawe]

For me it was a somber hunt, while Da was laying in his hospitable bed waiting out the inevitable ,I refused to leave but the rest of the family ganged up on me to go home and rest...I did,or at least tried - and just couldn't close my eyes, even though I had been up for couple days .
There was only one obvious thing to do,grab Heiko and my parker 16 VH and head to a favorite piece of ground ,I kept the cell phone on me just in case ....well in a short hour's walk I put up twenty birds and dropped I recall 7 ,the stress of the past few days was lifting ever so slightly , until I checked the phone and seen I was out of service ...in a panic I beat it out ,to where I regained signal and quick call reassured me he was still here .
I thanked the skipper for the quick shooting and day I will never forget

[Dean Romig]

Some of my best days are memorable because of the easy shots presented by what should have bee very cagy and elusive birds - and I dropped them cleanly and neatly.
But memories of these days are augmented by the times I could easily have killed birds but by some fluke - the twist of a tail or flip of a wing at precisely the right moment... or maybe it was my poor pointing of my little Parker, and I missed my mark. But these days also stick in my memory as special days.





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[Rich Anderson]

Every hunt is memorable for a variety of reasons, some more so than others.

[Jeff Kuss]

One duck hunt that comes to mind, was on snowshoes after a 3' dump. Fortunately I dropped both green heads on the bank so I didn't have to go back and get my waders.