What are your Parker goals for 2019?

[Mills Morrison]

On the collecting front, I want some small bores. 16s on 0 frames, half frames, maybe a 28. We'll see.

On the shooting front, I want to get my two vh 20 gauges I bought in the past two years on some real birds and get my puppy on some.

What does everyone else hope to do, realizing the devil fools with the best laid plans.

[charlie cleveland]

willys and parkers go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly...my goals for parker stuff would be a 28 ga repo and to get to use the big parker 12 on some ducks and maybe a turkey or two.....charlie

[Reggie Bishop]

My small collection/accumulation of Parkers are small bores with unusual or hard to find specs. I have one 16 which I really don't consider a small bore but i like it nonetheless. I am looking for a couple of small bores with specific, hard to find specs so I will be lucky to find either. I would like to get on some wild quail again in 2019, but they are as hard to find as the small bores on my wish list!!

[Dean Romig]

I desperately need to get some project guns finished in 2019. I've procrastinated long enough.





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[George Davis]

I hope by the end of 2019 I'm wore out, my Brittany is exhausted from bird hunting and my hammerless G Grade Parkers will need to be redone because of constant hunting & shooting.

[Rick Riddell]

I'm with Dean, time to get what I have where I want them, but a Baby Bretton might get in my way!

[Jay Gardner]

My goal is to spend more time with them and my setters in the grouse woods. Other than that, I would really like to get my 20/32 out on appropriate duck water.

JDG

[Dave Noreen]

Got a hankern' to add a very late Remington Parker to my accumulation. Doesn't have to be a Skeet Gun, but something with short barrels and open chokes that I might actually shoot. Double triggers preferred.

[Craig Larter]

I would like to find a early BH 10ga 30 or 32. I would have to sell my BH 12ga to offset the cost. That way my 10ga Parker hammerless collection would be complete as I have a DE, CE and AE. I know of one BH 10 ga and maybe the owner will decide to let it go this year. Parker only made 28 I think so my chances are very low of finding one.

[Bob Jurewicz]

To find that pristine LATE production, 16 GA, DHE, 1 frame, with 26 or 28" barrels.
I have had a set of orphaned 30" barrels and forend for years that need to be coupled to a great gun.
Bob Jurewicz

[Dean Romig]

I would like to find a early BH 10ga 30 or 32. I would have to sell my BH 12ga to offset the cost. That way my 10ga Parker hammerless collection would be complete as I have a DE, CE and AE. I know of one BH 10 ga and maybe the owner will decide to let it go this year. Parker only made 28 I think so my chances are very low of finding one.


What, no G or P or even V?





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[Craig Larter]

Dean: I have a NH (PH) 6 frame 10 gauge I would consider a EH (GH) 6 frame 10 gauge. :)

[CraigThompson]

I wanna find a VH/VHE 28 on a 00 frame , a 16 gauge GH on an 0 frame , an EH 10 with factory original 26” barrels and the real needle in the haystack an EH 10 with factory original 24” barrels . And yeah if they were acquired they’d be used by me ! Oh yeah Grade 2 top lever 10’s on 4 and 5 frames wouldn’t be turned down .

[Brian Dudley]

I want to try to find the time to make some good progress on a 12g A-1 special build as well as maybe get barreled actions put together for 20 and 28g builds.

And I would like to try and find time to write a few Parker Pages articles that I have had in the hopper for a while.

[Bill Murphy]

Craig, I hadn't thought about selling or trading my BH 10 hammerless World's Fair gun, but keep me in mind if you come up with something special. Presently, it is wearing a set of late #3 frame ten gauge Titanic barrels which fit it quite well. It has a less than acceptable restock, but the metal is astounding.

[Tom Flanigan]

I don't plan my Parker purchases. I just look at the sites often and jump on something if I really want it. My planning for 2019 will not involve Parkers but planting sorghum in the spring on the property. As soon as the ground is workable in the spring, we'll plow and disk the areas where I want the sorghum. Sorghum makes great cover and food for the pheasants. It’s time for a new seed drill so I’ve been looking on line for one for sale within decent driving distance. I don’t want to spend a lot of money on it since I only use it to make 7 foot strips on five of the fields. I’m not planting the whole fields for money crops, just making cover and feed for the pheasants. No need to make an investment in a brand new seed drill. I’m looking forward to planting time. For me, it’s a lot of fun.

[Bill Murphy]

Charlie, I have way enough Parkers, but I am still on the hunt for an original 40-42 Willys coupe or sedan. I am not much of a farmer, but I have the foundation laid for a garage for the Willys.

[CraigThompson]

On the collecting front, I want some small bores. 16s on 0 frames, half frames, maybe a 28. We'll see.

On the shooting front, I want to get my two vh 20 gauges I bought in the past two years on some real birds and get my puppy on some.

What does everyone else hope to do, realizing the devil fools with the best laid plans.

Mills is that a CJ-2A or CJ-3A fender the Parkers laid on ?

[Mills Morrison]

I think it's a 3A.

[CraigThompson]

willys and parkers go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly....charlie

Don't get me wrong I like CJ-2A's and CJ-3A's more then most but I was always of the opinion that small Parker's in leg o mutton cases looked about perfect sliding in the golf bag door on the side of a Packard 26-29 coupe convertible with a couple English Setters perched in the rumble seat .

[CraigThompson]

I think it's a 3A.

Is the windshield a two piece or one piece ?

Two piece CJ-2A .

One piece CJ-3A .

[Bill Holcombe]

I have 2 CHEs I acquired last year that need some work. Getting them sorted out will be the priority. Provided those bernards on the one get finished and the dtock on the other gets repaired we can get serious about restoring them.... Provided I ever crawl out of this Colt Firearms hole I have gone down.

2020 maybe I can chase a BH....hahahaha

[charlie cleveland]

bill i too love those old willys coupe or sedan....them things bring big money especially the coupes...if i see or hear of one i will contact you....i would say a nice origanal 40 willys coupe would be worth more than a b grade parker in nice shape...charlie

[Kevin McCormack]

Continue the search for the 2nd set of Titanic Steel barrels specified in the PGCA letter for my ultra-rare (2 known) AH 16 ga. 0-frame 26" Damascus steel gun, sent back to Parker 3 times for restocking twice and adding the second set of fluid steel barrels (no length, chambers or chokes specified in the letter) the last time. They're out there somewhere!

[Reggie Bishop]

Wow Kevin! Sounds like a special one!

[Randy G Roberts]

I'm with Tom in that I don't plan acquisitions. I like the long barreled versions and just react when we cross paths. I'm on no great mission but I am developing an itch for a VH 28 gauge but it's gonna need 30" barrels before I get serious. Right now I'm on more of a what I don't want mission and that would be single triggers and ejectors, on a bad roll right now.

[John Truitt]

[QUOTE=Randy G Roberts;262199 Right now I'm on more of a what I don't want mission and that would be single triggers and ejectors, on a bad roll right now.[/QUOTE]

I tried to warn you.

[Randy G Roberts]

Good memory John, yes you did. Just hard to walk away from a great gun just because of a ST. To be continued I suppose :corn:

[Jeff Kuss]

My current goal is not to buy as many Parkers as last year. We will see
how that goes!

[davidboyles]

Well Jan 12 and 13th will be spent at Beaver Dam lake in Tunica Ms where I am a guest and will reacquaint my DHE 20 ga 30" bbl gun I wrote about in the last PP. The DHE will meet a newly acquired Super Fox HE 12 to trade stories about the past. Also in the mix I plan on inviting to the Duckathon my EH 10ga Damascus 30 incher with gauge Mates to shoot some Bismuth 12 #5 on ducks. At the end of the day we will see who carries the banner and from the way I shot kamakazi Whitewings yesterday the DHE 20 will be the victor. I could not connect with the Super Fox with 1 oz 7 1/2 shot loads but when I did poof!!!! Whatever the outcome it's all GOOD!!! I'm selling some non Parker guns so may be in the market like lots of folks for small bore like 20 and 16's. Still looking for C grade small gauge Parker. Happy New Year All.

[Bill Mullins]

Craig, the BH 10’s seem to be more elusive than the AH tens. According to TPS
there were approximately 22 A’s and 23 B’s. Small numbers in each grade! In almost forty years I’ve only seen four or five B’s but probably more than a dozen
AH tens. Possibly the A’s were better cared for over the years and subsequently
had a higher survival rate. 🤔

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Just hope that the good Lord will grant good health, and maybe I can find that 20 gauge hammer gun, that I need well I know where it is just have to do a little more haggling do not really need anything else, Gary

[allen newell]

My goals for 2019 would include, clean bill of health, spend more time with my 3 grandkids, steady up my 2 and a half yr old english setter, shoot more of my parkers and more often.

[Dean Romig]

Go for it David!

I hope Beaversam meets all your expectations!





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[Jay Oliver]

I may slow down in 2019 as I ended up buying quite a bit in 2018. Having said that…I would like to add a 16 gauge hammer gun and maybe a higher grade lifter in 10 or 12. I also have a handful of projects, some going out and hopefully some coming back.

I know I’ll also find a few I can’t live without during the year as well. That is the fun part of this addiction ;)

[Jerry Harlow]

I wanna find a VH/VHE 28 on a 00 frame , a 16 gauge GH on an 0 frame , an EH 10 with factory original 26” barrels and the real needle in the haystack an EH 10 with factory original 24” barrels . And yeah if they were acquired they’d be used by me ! Oh yeah Grade 2 top lever 10’s on 4 and 5 frames wouldn’t be turned down .

Did you miss that refinished 28 VH in Madison that sold for $3900 last year? It looked to be a nice gun. A friend of mine told me about it after the auction was over and he knew I would have been interested. A lot of good that did.

[John Davis]

50 straight on the Trap field.

[Daniel G Rainey]

My goal for Parkers for 2019 would be to shoot them more. To be honest, I do not shoot some of my Parkers very much because I end going to the same gun most of the time ( a DHE 16) In Dec. I purchased a DHE 20 that I hope to get too know at the skeet range come spring. As to more Parkers, something always seems to come ago that I think I can not live without and they always seem to cost more than the last one. Need to plan for more bird hunting trips in 2019 not more shotguns.

[Eric Eis]

My Parker goal is the same as last year (and the years before), find a set of Damascus O frame 16 ga 30" inch ejector barrels for my AHE that was born with those barrels but was then sent back to Remington and fitted with 20 and 28 gauge fluid steel barrels (we all know what Remington did with those 16 ga dangerous barrels :crying: ) I have seen two sets, but neither were for sale:banghead: So still on the hunt !

[Dean Romig]

50 straight on the Trap field....then what will you have to look forward to?





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[Daniel Carter]

75 100 ?

[Dean Romig]

I guess so...

I shot back to back 24’s a decade or more ago, dropping the 25th in each round. I knew it was not the gun and I decided there and then that I didn’t need to do that to myself and I sold the gun.






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[Richard Flanders]

Two goals. 1. To still be upright and breathing in January 2020. 2. Come up with a 26" 20ga to replace the one I gave to my niece, which she finally got to shoot two weeks ago. She hit well with it and was very happy....and, as I had advised her, she refused to let anyone else, not even her parents, touch or shoot it!

[Dean Romig]

That’s very sound advice.





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[Paul Ehlers]

I'm probably going the opposite way this year. I have a Model-21 20ga upgrade/custom project in the works & will probably be selling a few of my Parkers to help off-set the costs of the project. I'll resume my hunt for Parker's when the 21 project is completed.

[Kurt Sauers]

A nice 16, 0 frame gh(e) damascus, sub 6 lbs. or a Dickson, Richards,Atkin,Grant light 12ga

[King Brown]

I have responsibilities as head of a large family and all its advantages, while still useful in the wage economy. All the guns I ever wanted are in the rack. In a hunting and fishing paradise our MH Lab is a constant companion. I want nothing except, at 87, to be burning brightly to the end, and the same for all members here.

[Steve Cambria]

On the Parker front, just dumped them all at Silas Deane Pawn to fund my purchase of the finest flintlock rifle Carl Pippert ever made.

[Dean Romig]

We’ll miss ya Tool :bigbye:





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[Joe Graziano]

My goal is to finish the restoration of the VH ugly gun. I bought it at auction a few months back for next to nothing. Turns out, it's a fantastic skeet gun and I shoot it well. I posted about it when I purchased and will post the "before and after" pics when the first phase, metal refinish, is complete. Then, it is off for wood work. I saw the barrels, trigger guard and small parts after removal of rust and a proper rust blue. They look fantastic. Old engraved name removed from the action, engraving recut, and now, off to get new case colors. So far, so good, and in budget.

[CraigThompson]

Did you miss that refinished 28 VH in Madison that sold for $3900 last year? It looked to be a nice gun. A friend of mine told me about it after the auction was over and he knew I would have been interested. A lot of good that did.

I was at the auction standing there watching . The barrels were cut the metal was loosely called refinished , the wood was refinished , the barrels had been cut , the wood to metal fit was horrible , gun was an 0 frame as well as I can remember the serial number dated it at 1902 or 3 . You missed nothing , if you had purchased it you woulda've had a small fortune in it to make it decent and it would always be not anywhere near the way it left the factory .

[Mark Ray]

Completing my 00 frame 28 gauge custom project, my 0 frame 20 gauge repair and restoration to "age appropriate" condition, begin restoration work on my $150 grade early lifter short 10, and decide what to do with the D grade top lever 10 that needs re-jointing.

And bargain hunting!

[Rich Anderson]

My first order of business it to decide what two Parkers to add for my upcoming January quail hunt. I take 6 guns for a three day hunt:eek: and there are 4
that are a must go. The two additions will be 20's maybe a 28 (I'm already taking a hammer gun in 28) something from the dark corners of the tomb, perhaps the Damascus CHE or GHE 20's who knows it's a conundrum for sure :rotf:

The next step is to keep my net worth intact at the Southern:shock:

Ike will get a girlfriend the end of spring or early summer depending on the breeding dates so a month to six weeks in the U.P. with Ike, Molly several Parkers and a couple of English guns is definitely on the calendar.

The thing with goals however is once achieved they no longer motivate so lets all strive to keep achieving:)

[Mills Morrison]

Goals achieved quickly get replaced by new goals.

[Dean Romig]

The thing with goals however is once achieved they no longer motivate so lets all strive to keep achieving:)


Those sound like the words of a motivational speaker.... and I always thought you made your millions in insurance.





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[davidboyles]

Rich in your personal hunting absence could I borrow the remainder of your Gun inventory for a year??? Dove hunt last Sat was outa site some of the best this year. Cool afternoons which I’ll take over Sept 105 degree weather. Have a good trip

[Russell E. Cleary]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson: "The thing with goals however is once achieved they no longer motivate so lets all strive to keep achieving."
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[QUOTE=Dean Romig;262301]Those sound like the words of a motivational speaker.... and I always thought you made your millions in insurance.

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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? “

Robert Browning (1812-1889), early motivational speaker.

[Rich Anderson]

Those sound like the words of a motivational speaker.... and I always thought you made your millions in insurance.





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30 + years of selling insurance requires all sorts of motivation:whistle:

[Randy G Roberts]

30 + years of selling insurance requires all sorts of motivation:whistle:

So the old saying is true, no one can match the endurance of the man who sells insurance. I'm working on 35 years this August, geez !

[Mills Morrison]

Made me think about this

[Rich Anderson]

I sold insurance for a company called Combined Insurance door to door for over ten years....."for every adversity there is a seed of equal or greater benefit"....and there was:)

[Randy G Roberts]

Made me think about this

I dunno, he looks more like the local attorney to me :rotf:

[Mills Morrison]

I dunno, he looks more like the local attorney to me :rotf:

:rotf::rotf::rotf:

Could be

[Mills Morrison]

I also have some projects to get out of the way. I need to send my new 10 gauge off somewhere, but know I will need money to get some small bores. We will see

[Rich Anderson]

About the only shotgun I'm looking for in a very casual way is a 30 inch 410 hammer gun. I do know the whereabouts of a VHE 16 with a straight grip and 32 inch barrels that might become available:whistle:

[Reggie Bishop]

Rich what frame size is that 16/32"?

[Mark Ray]

30 + years of selling insurance requires all sorts of motivation:whistle:

Amen Brother!!! I am in my 34th year!!:eek:

[Mark Ray]

About the only shotgun I'm looking for in a very casual way is a 30 inch 410 hammer gun. I do know the whereabouts of a VHE 16 with a straight grip and 32 inch barrels that might become available:whistle:

I obtained a 28 bore English hammer gun with 30" barrels in really nice shape this past year....it is a killing machine with the rst 2 1/2's

[Andrew Clark]

I sold insurance for a company called Combined Insurance door to door for over ten years....."for every adversity there is a seed of equal or greater benefit"....and there was:)

I have 2 policies with Combined and have had to use it in the past. They held up their end of the bargain both times!

[Rich Anderson]

Reggie the 32 inch 16 is on a #1 frame.
Mark I bought a W.R. Pape 28 hammergun at a shoot several years ago. It has 28 inch fluid steel barrels and is a great quail gun.

[Tom Flanigan]

Rich....I apologize for using the forum for this but I sent you a couple of private messages and I don't believe you got them. I want to send you some vintage 2" Eley cartridges. My email is thomas.j.flanigan@outlook.

[Rich Anderson]

Tom I never did get the PM. I'm e mailing you my info.

[John Davis]

50 straight on the Trap field.

DONE

[Dean Romig]

Congratulations John. We know the shooter - please tell us about the gun.





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[Bill Murphy]

My goals changed when I signed up to bid on a great VH .410 in a recent auction. Unfortunately, the checkbook ran out about six items before the .410 came up. The .410 sold for a wonderful $9000. Believe me, this won't be the last .410 to come to auction in the near future.

[Mills Morrison]

DONE

Good job John! I have a 16 0 frame and a new 28 gauge. Also have taken both VH 20s hunting so things are going well

[Mills Morrison]

My goals changed when I signed up to bid on a great VH .410 in a recent auction. Unfortunately, the checkbook ran out about six items before the .410 came up. The .410 sold for a wonderful $9000. Believe me, this won't be the last .410 to come to auction in the near future.


Wow! What was wrong with it?

[John Davis]

Ok Dean. So yesterday I actually met my 2019 goal but not my Parker goal. I took my first 50 straight with my Ithaca Flues 5E SBT, straight stock, 34 inch barrel. Both of my Parker SBT's are presently in the "shop".

Today however, I reached my 2019 Parker goal and then some. I returned to the trap field with the 10 pound Voorhees BHE 12 gauge on a 3 frame, 34 inch barrels, ventilated rib, beaver tail forend, straight stock with cheek piece. First round I shot a 21 but ended with 7 straight. Then I settled down and in the next two rounds shot straight for 50. I even picked up another 10 in fourth round before I inevitably missed.

That gave me my 50 straight with a Parker and a long run of 67 over the 4 rounds.

[George Davis]

Wear them all out from shooting and hunting and need them all to be redone by end of bird season 2019-2020. What a great year that would be!!!!!!!

[Jay Gardner]

I would like to find a 20 ga DH with 28” Damascus barrels in need of help (ie restoration).

[Bill Murphy]

Mills, the .410 had less than stellar wood, but I had a wood set in the hopper, and a friend also had a wood set, so I was ready to bid. However, another great gun got my money first. Where are you with the Model 21 Duck? Let me know.

[Mills Morrison]

Haven't got the outbid notice yet

[Dean Romig]

Great piece of shooting John!





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