A Frustrated AAHE

[henderson Marriott]

The last time my 3rd generation 1923 AAHE shot a turkey was in the 1930s with my grandfather-it was his Parker. Witnessed by my father. Dad rarely took it out and shot it even less while he was alive..

So my family AAHE sits between a Long Range LC Smith and a Fox HE
Super Fox. (Both 3 inch shotguns)This season a 10 in bearded tom fell to the LC Smith and the Fox took on geese this year.

One of these days...the owner may get as frustrated as the lone Parker
or a gun dog left behind when he knows he should be hunting too.

The years rest lightly on a Parker gun....it was made to be used.

[Dean Romig]

I would propose that it is the responsibility of the gun’s owner to see that it is used for its intended purpose, often... even instead of the other guns in the safe regardless of the superior effectiveness of the other guns for a particular hunting or shooting situation.





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[henderson Marriott]

Dean:

My Boykin Spaniel would agree with you, right into brackish water for downed ducks...
but he is a smart enough dog to realize that he and the Parker belong to me-and likes to retrieve distant ducks.

However, Nash Buckingham would also concur.

[CraigThompson]

Awful lotta folks on this forum have those little brown dogs :whistle: The picture is of my little brown dog in Sanford last month .

[henderson Marriott]

The SC state hunting dog.
My father, from Mobile, Alabama-was on the Boykin Spaniel Society
Board of Directors in Camden for many years.

I always liked their Boykin certification/ registration policy. It actively discouraged
AKC and backyard breeding. Very stringent, which protects the breed.

My Boykin, Mad Max-would stop eating if I went on an extended hunting trip
to Alaska without him. Amazingly loyal one-man spaniel. He was fond of the smell
of Hoppes and gun oil in Model 12s and the family's double guns. He was most pleased to be in a dove field or duck blind. The little brown dogs are superlative-like Parkers.

[CraigThompson]

The SC state hunting dog.
My father, from Mobile, Alabama-was on the Boykin Spaniel Society
Board of Directors in Camden for many years.

I always liked their Boykin certification/ registration policy. It actively discouraged
AKC and backyard breeding. Very stringent, which protects the breed.

My Boykin, Mad Max-would stop eating if I went on an extended hunting trip
to Alaska without him. Amazingly loyal one-man spaniel. He was fond of the smell
of Hoppes and gun oil in Model 12s and the family's double guns. He was most pleased to be in a dove field or duck blind. The little brown dogs are superlative-like Parkers.

I first saw a Boykin in about 1977 or 78 . My aunt married a fellow that was originally from Colombia SC . His dad raised and field trialed Boykins back in the early period 70's and 80's . He's mentioned a few times in the kinda thick Boykin book winning some trials and he was at the the thing when they broached the subject at the SC state capitol about making the Boykin the state dog . Anyway he gave my aunt and uncle a pup the first year they were married and I'd wanted one ever since . Finally got the one I have now about three years ago . I blame Mr. Hall for that he put me in touch with the guy I bought her from :rotf: She's the first hunting dog I've ever kept in the house . When I had setters they were always kennel dogs , this one I think would be hurt if she didn't stay in the house :whistle:

Incidently when we were down at Sanford last month there were five of them back in the dove field at one point ! Mine , Jimmy Hall's pair and two more that belonged to one of the gentleman that works at Deep River .

[henderson Marriott]

There is a cover picture of Nash Buckingham on the Shootinest Gent-Man volume.
It shows Mr. Buck with a heavy frame straight stocked Philadelphia-looking double
in a duck blind. But at the picture bottom is a familiar looking wiry coated little brown dog-
who may well be a first descendant of the Irish Water Spaniel. The same Irish dog my father hunted ducks with in the long ago time of live decoys, Winchester Model 97s,
and the Parker gun.

[Patrick Lien]

Pictures of an AHE 20ga should be made required if one is posting on this forum I think. It would certainly be returned in kind with the feedback you seek. So, please let us see pics of this wonderful gun with its build specs.

thank you

PML

[henderson Marriott]

This is a slightly unreasonable request, but I am willing to comply if someone will
give me a Parker AHE 20 GA shotgun-or leave it to me in his/her will. However- If you wish to view this 1923 Parker AAHE Special Order 12 Gauge-factory ventilated rib,
kindly see the Summer 2003 issue of the Double Gun Journal.
{Generally, it is not advisable to mention that a Parker might possibly be for sale
within PGCA pages outside of those intended for the purpose, so I won't pursue that).

The previous post is an excellent example of misuse of the term "required", and use of the word should be guarded or avoided altogether.