So, who and what is this??

[Jack Cronkhite]

O/U currently manufactured in Meriden under the name Parker Bros
Just stumbled on this while looking around for TPS.

Is the name not trademarked and held by Remington?? Still learning.

http://www.parkerbrosmakers.com/ParkerBrosMakerssite/video.htm

Maybe answering my own question. On their home page it shows that Parker Bros is trademarked by RA Brands (assume Remington Arms) and used under licence. Anyone have experience with this company?

Cheers,
Jack

[Bill Davis]

This Parker O/U has been kicking around for some years now and never seems to get any further then a website. I saw them at the Grand American toward the last years in Vandalia. Expensive and unattractive to my eye!

[James T. Kucaba]

This Parker O/U has been kicking around for some years now and never seems to get any further then a website.

I've been hearing snippets about this "NEW" Parker Bros. Company and their O/U gun for a long time, and I'd like to learn more ... What can anyone out there tell me about this outfit and their so called "New Reliable" O/U guns ... If anyone out there has actually had their hands on one of these O/U guns, I'd like to hear their opinion of it ... THANKS !

Jim Kucaba ... AriZOOna Cactus Patch ... Email: JimKucaba@aol.com

[Gregory Miller]

If you look at their site, it shows:
"PARKER ® IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF RA BRANDS AND IS EXCLUSIVELY LICENSED BY PARKER BROS. MAKERS, INC."

RA Brand is presumably the licensing subsidiary for Freedom Group / Remington Arms as they are located at Remington Headquarters.

I hate to be a neighsayer, and wish them well. Have to respect anyone with the guts to put a new shotgun into production. Who knows, maybe we might yet see a SxS coming out of Meriden.

[Chuck Bishop]

My friend Ed Clapper writes a monthly column for Shotgun Sports Magazine under the title of "Average Ed." We both saw the gun at the Grand American and from my limited memory, the only thing it had in common with our Parkers were the recessed hinge pin look and the scalloped receiver. As you can read from Ed's response, they never got back to him on testing the gun. I've been to many ATA major events and never saw one actually being used, and at the price they were quoting, which is at the top of the price range of the Seitz's and Perazzi's, I doubt that I will.

To quote Ed's response:

Shotgun Sports Magazine editor-in-chief Johnny Cantu and I spoke with one of the owners of the company at the Grand in 2005, the first (and only?) year they had a display there. I handled the guns they brought to Vandalia and was supposed to be contacted by them to arrange for a gun to be sent to me for a review in SSM. After not hearing from them for a month or so after the conclusion of the Grand, I sent two emails to the email address on the business card I was given (and still have, I'm pretty sure) but never got a response. My emails were not returned as "undeliverable," so I can only assume they were received but perhaps they dropped the idea of a trap gun.

As I recall, they were even contemplating a single barrel-over/under trap combo at that time. They seemed really interested in the trap market and seemed genuinely excited about having a trapshooting columnist shoot one for a while. We even discussed release triggers, which I would need, and if it would be okay for my son to do the shooting if I couldn't get releases installed in the test gun or they didn't want that done.

[Bill Murphy]

Kevin McCormack and I inspected the gun in its finished form at a later Vintagers at Millbrook. Kevin fired the gun, I did not. I was coming off the discovery of my right eye problems and didn't think I could give it a good trial. I'm sure several of us shot the gun that year. The only real observation we made was that the gun had way too many parts, screws, pins, you name it, around the open breech section which should be a clean and uncluttered area of any break open gun. I really didn't understand the concept that was being attempted. I would like to see the latest version to see if it would be more interesting.