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Steven Groh
08-04-2020, 12:06 AM
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Missing:

Parker CHE
Serial No. 132269
115 years old, but doesn't look its age.
12 gauge
32" barrels
straight stock replaced in 2008

Come home, and I will take good care of you. I apologize for ever selling you.

If you know who owns this gun, please send me a PM. I would like to buy it back.

Old guns matter!

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Rick Losey
08-04-2020, 07:14 AM
nice

family gun??

or just seller's regret

Steven Groh
08-04-2020, 08:11 AM
nice

family gun??

or just seller's regret

The latter.

It would be a fitting end to find it for sale on a gun dealer's site.

Like all guns, it has a story to tell. And at 115 it has a long one!

I told a part of it once.

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Russ Jackson
08-04-2020, 08:33 AM
Steven , A very nice gun ,with the internet there is always the possibility of locating it ! Locating it might depend on how long ago you parted with it ! High grade guns seem to have staying qualities in collections and I have read usually around twelve years or so on the average , I don't know if that's true or not but I have parted company with many lower grade guns over the years ,while I have a CHE 20 Gauge that I have owned for at least 15 years or so ! Good Luck in your search !

Steven Groh
08-04-2020, 09:04 AM
Steven , A very nice gun ,with the internet there is always the possibility of locating it ! Locating it might depend on how long ago you parted with it ! High grade guns seem to have staying qualities in collections and I have read usually around twelve years or so on the average , I don't know if that's true or not but I have parted company with many lower grade guns over the years ,while I have a CHE 20 Gauge that I have owned for at least 15 years or so ! Good Luck in your search !

Thanks. As luck would have it, I sold it twelve years ago.

Ken Hill
08-04-2020, 09:41 AM
Steven,

A great article. What moment of weakness overtook you to sell it?

Ken

Daryl Corona
08-04-2020, 09:42 AM
Nice read Steve.

Bill Murphy
08-04-2020, 10:57 AM
Briley screw in chokes?? $500 spent to lower the value of a gun by approximately $2500. To each his own. I don't know how hard I would look for this great gun. Of course, it may be priced to reflect the installation of the Brileys. Good luck in your search.

Brian Dudley
08-04-2020, 12:33 PM
Just start with contacting who you sold it to and work forward from there. If You have not done that already.

Steven Groh
08-04-2020, 12:38 PM
Briley screw in chokes?? $500 spent to lower the value of a gun by approximately $2500. To each his own. I don't know how hard I would look for this great gun. Of course, it may be priced to reflect the installation of the Brileys. Good luck in your search.

I DID NOT put Brileys in the gun - heaven forbid! :eek:

I love the barrel work Briley does on bores; they have the best machining in the business. But bringing up choke tubes was in the context of other options, like a single trigger, none of which did I select.

If I had my way, there would be fixed chokes in my DT10 sporting gun. I haven't changed chokes in that gun in ten years.

Please forgive any misunderstanding.

I am a firm believer in fixed chokes, double barrels, and double triggers.

Russell E. Cleary
08-04-2020, 12:39 PM
Steven:

An enjoyable article. Thanks for the link.

I well know those persisting regrets -- all out of proportion with what should really matter in our lives. In my case it was selling a fine sporting print that had graced my office for several years, when I had fallen on hard times. It was of Woodcock shooting, entitled “SEEK DEAD” (presumably a quaint 19th Century locution of the command for a dog to retrieve).

I can’t even find an example of that picture owned by someone else on the internet (presumably to drag out the longing even more!).

No matter how much stuff we have it is like the lost sheep parable (Matthew 18:12–14; Luke 15:3–7), about the shepherd who leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep in order to find the one which is lost.

Good luck Steven with your quest.

Question for anyone: In the article Steven’s gunsmith says, “You know, it really doesn't look like this [CHE] has been shot much. Look at the original tool marks,…"

I hear this about some high-condition Parker guns from time-to-time; it even has been said about one I own now. Where are these tool marks commonly found, other than where there is less-than-complete barrel striking?

Steven Groh
08-04-2020, 12:41 PM
Steven,

A great article. What moment of weakness overtook you to sell it?

Ken

November 2008...or was it December.
Things were looking pretty bleak in the real estate business.

Steven Groh
07-18-2024, 12:33 AM
Bump.
Anyone seen this gun?

Donald F. Mills
07-18-2024, 05:52 AM
Here is a CHE that could be a sister to the CHE you are looking for and it is only 2,000 off in serial number. https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/shotguns/parker-shotguns/parker-che.cfm?gun_id=102712738

Steven Groh
07-18-2024, 07:08 PM
Here is a CHE that could be a sister to the CHE you are looking for and it is only 2,000 off in serial number. https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/shotguns/parker-shotguns/parker-che.cfm?gun_id=102712738

Thanks for the heads-up!
I look at every CHE ad that comes up, to see if it is my gun.
My interest is not sentimental (well, maybe a little); it is about the custom stock I had made for it.
When I bought the gun, the wrist was irrepairable, so I took it up to Montana Long Guns to have them make me a custom stock, to turn it into a great gun for clay pigeons (or live ones, for that matter).
I don't need to tell you how much a custom stock costs (or how much it is worth to a target shooter).
It was a super clean gun that had been restored by Turnbull, if memory serves.
At any rate, I hope someone gets tired of hiding it in a gun safe and decides to sell it back to me.