CHE 28

[Bruce Day]

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[william faulk]

WOW...What I would give for a shot of finding one of these .What a beauty!!
How many of these little gems ever were made?
This your gun ?
Bill

[Stephen Hodges]

Bruce- I really enjoy your posts of fine parkers. Thanks.

[CraigThompson]

I realize I'm new and all but I'll be generouse and send you $100 to send me that old clunker so you don't have to look at it anylonger :rotf:

[Bruce Day]

To put these C 28's in perspective, from TPS, there were 4 made in Bernard, none known now, 3 in damascus, none known now, 4 in Titanic and 16 in Acme, existing numbers in fluid steel not known. The numbers are even smaller in B's and A's. This is one of 16 made.

Another friend called me and asked if I knew of any 28ga Bernards that might be available. Certainly not because none of the four have ever been found to collectors. There is a 32" Bernard 28 in the books, I'd love to find that and I won't be calling anybody first.

This 28ga belongs to a buddy who likes to promote interest in Parkers. You can get about the same in a 20ga but C 20's are also very difficult to find. This one is correct, unbutchered and not messed with.

If a person wants an engraved 28ga, with the scarce numbers and high cost of these guns, that is why the 28ga Parker reproductions are such an attractive alternative. I know some people don't like the looks of them as much as the originals, but the ones that are being redone by chasing the engraving to make it deeper, good charcoal case colors, traditional wood finish, are very attractive to me. I think the day will come where even the 28ga repros will be hard to find.

[David Dwyer]

I received a call yesterday to let me know a well known dealer just put a nice CHE 28 with a pad on his web site for sale. Better take a second mortgage though before you look at it!:eek::eek:http://www.parkerguns.org/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif

[Bruce Day]

Yes. Its an interesting little gun at 24" . Great engraving.

I have a little DHE 20ga with correct 24" and original 14" checkered butt that is a fun small bird gun. John Dunkle has been wanting to borrow it.

Chuck's C will probably be at the Southern.

[Richard Flanders]

There is a 24" DHE28 here in Alaska. Gorgeous gun. Owner had it restocked from the non original monte carlo stock it had on it when he got it. Looks much better now. The rest of the gun is maybe 95% or so.. maybe more.