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Kent Nickerson
06-21-2020, 04:42 PM
Rereading my DG Journals from the last 20 odd years and I ran across this from 2004....if there are follow up PGCA postings about any of these guns ...please let me know if there is any way to see them...I have tried a few key word searches and "nada"...thanks...
http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=790&pictureid=12789
Greg Baehman
06-21-2020, 05:16 PM
Forrest Armstrong had a couple of these done, here's a link to one of them:
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16556

And here's another:
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14650
Dean Romig
06-21-2020, 06:12 PM
David Trevallion wrote an article on the subject of the Parker Reproductions in Shooting Sportsman just a few issues back - less than a year for certain.

Very informative.





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Greg Baehman
06-21-2020, 07:23 PM
David Trevallion wrote an article on the subject of the Parker Reproductions in Shooting Sportsman just a few issues back - less than a year for certain.

Very informative.
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Dean are you referring to this, the SHOOTING SPORTSMAN Jan/Feb 2019 issue, where David Trevallion, one of the most knowledgable and a highly respected stockmaker of best guns in the world wrote "Parker Reproduction guns were in every respect equal - if not superior - to the originals"?

https://shootingsportsman.com/parkerrepro/
Dean Romig
06-21-2020, 10:11 PM
Yup, that’s it. I thought it was more recent... my how time flies.

David tells me there may be a follow up to that.



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Bill Murphy
06-30-2020, 08:36 AM
There are a couple or more unengraved A-1 Specials on gunsinternational right now. In my opinion, they are the best buy in Repros. Unfortunately, they are competing with some very nice original Parkers in the same price range.
Bill Murphy
06-30-2020, 08:44 AM
Duplicate post.
Ken Hill
06-30-2020, 10:17 AM
Here is another one http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24875. Very interesting engraving.

Ken
Brian Dudley
07-01-2020, 06:00 PM
These are left over new A-1 specials that were intended to be for custom grade guns. The custom grade guns were engraved stateside by Goeffory Gournet.

These guns had finished wood and all metal was in the white, ready for engraving.

There are still a good amount of them around today, mostly in 12g.

I have collaborated with Geoffroy on finishing a number of these over the last 5 years. Maybe 6-8 of them.

I currently have one in the works for myself too.