The lost DHE

[Mark Parela]

Crazy few weeks here, I purchased a DHE 32" Vent Rib, BTFE, Miller Trigger a few weeks ago. Yep UPS lost it just watching the tracking stand still was making me nuts. We "seller" & myself were calling them and there answer was were looking for it, it's on the way.... So from Cali toTX, TN, MN, OH then NJ to PA back to NJ 26 days to get to my buddies FFL. He called me last nite to let me in on news, as a bonus un-harmed. I post a few pics of the Parker later that was at one time owned by a pretty famous pigeon shooter out of GA.

[Eric Eis]

Congrats......:rotf: You should probably play the lotto :) Eric

[Mark Parela]

Couple of pics, I also wanted to mention I have no talent for taking pictures. I don't think a white sheet on the kitchen table is going to cut it for a center-fold. Even with the snow and rain I shot it a few times. It handles very smooth for 32" tubes. I'll head into NYC this weekend to get a few hundred pigeon then off to my friends farm in New England to load up the boxes and have some fun.

Doug Trumbull did the work.
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[Kurt Densmore]

Glad to see that it made it in one piece. It looks like a really nice gun....with all the bells and whistles. Good luck with the pigeons !!

Kurt

[Rich Anderson]

What a road trip that went on, glad to know it arrived safely. Doug does nice work, I have the little sister to your gun a 26 inch bbld DHE vent rib, SST, BTF straight grip skeet gun that Doug did some work on. pigeons for you Pheasants for me.

[Ed Blake]

You trap pigeons in NYC for "relocation" to your friend's farm? I'd like to hear more about that.

[Mark Parela]

Once they get there they get loaded into 1 of 9 Barnaby's and have one hurddle to over come. My friend and I have been doing this for years, hell he's just a regular old dairy farmer that is one of the better pigeon shooters I have ever seen. He's never been to a live pigeon shoot just his farm. For letting me set up the ring I gave him a Beretta 682 Gold and he can shoot it. When they shut down the Valley Forge shoot I purchased all the traps, we used those string traps for about 6 years then in 2000 bought the Barnaby's, dug the lines...... There were times I'd go up with 5-600 pigeons and we'd spend the day having a blast. Back then my god daughter would work the traps. Now she's older and only wants to shoot her 391 20ga.
I can trap 3-400 pigeons in short order, keep them in my barn for the week, load up and have some fun for the weekend. Bout it.

[Ed Blake]

How do you trap them? What did you do with the old string traps? Oh and nice gun. I have one just like it except it has double triggers.

[Mark Parela]

I have all the old traps in my gun room and office at my shop. Trapping has been a passion of mine since I was a kid and still hit it hard every fall. Pre bait your area, have your trap with the doors open for a few day and then drop the doors and add in a few judas birds. Let's just say I have a few places to trap that guys would give there left nut to trap. I trap em, box them in computer boxes and grease the service elevator operator and load in my work van. My traps are 3'x3'x 6' high with perch bars. My spots are prebaited, so I have my guys bring in a 5 gal bucket of feed and ask the office mangers to toss feed out on the location. A nice lunch or day at the spa goes along way. I can do 3-400 in about 3 hours.

There's plenty of history in those boxes. Number 5 on ring 3.
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[John Dallas]

When I was doing a lot of training field trial Springers, our club used to use an explosively-launched 40' X 60' net (think Marlin Perkins) We'd set up near a grain elevator, and, if we were lucky, could get 3-400 pigeons in one shot

[william faulk]

WOW !! What memories you brought back to me. My first"job",that I made money with was catching pigeons in Dothan,Alabama .I sold these vto the local shoot club for 25 cents.We trapped them at the feed mills,the feeder plots and even on the roof of the old court house.Side bonus was I attended the shoots when my Mother did not know I was going.
Top gun was Stinkey Stenson,a somewhat shady characterbut a 12 year old boy's idol.Drove a big red convertable,always had a pretty girl on his arm and never worked.
Saw Stinkey win a truck one time by just one bird.Bird was hit but flew 20 feet out of the ring.I knew it was heart shot.Bird turned around and dropped dead in the center of the ring.Stinkey bought all a beer that evening(me too) at the billard palace(pool hall).
Wonder what ever happened to that guy..man he could shoot!!

[Mark Parela]

I think every pigeon shoot has a Stinkey Stenson. One of the better shooters I ever came accross at the age of 17 was John. He was da bomb I mean he flew all over shooting, hung with the top end crowd and I wanted to be like him. Later on I stopped in this farm to see if I could get permission to trap, there he was a man I had looked up to, he was the care taker for John DeLorean's place. Lived in a small little shack on the grounds. He had nothing but a few belt buckles from some of the big shoots, a Perazzi, some pictures of he and Bob Brister at the world shoots.

He did how ever teach me all he knew about the game and the art of wing shooting. The stories he would tell me of who's who in the world of flyers. When John D got in trouble there were 2 brothers that let him stay at there place. He's old and I try to get out to see him once a month, if it's trapping season he'll ride along several times a week. One of the greatest lessons he taught me was pigeon shooters as a whole are a great bunch of guys, just don't let em in your house. LOL

[Richard Flanders]

It's becoming very clear to me that some people just have too much fun! This pigeon thing at the farm sounds like a great way to burn powder.

[Mark Parela]

I wouldn't say it's all fun until you're in an elavator greasing the operator. Hell we bring up boxes of fiber and have to pay a vig of 20 per box, I want to bring down boxes of pigeons and it's 10 go figure.
Over the years it has given me the chance to fool with all sorts of loads, chokes, shot....

[Stephen Hodges]

It's becoming very clear to me that some people just have too much fun! This pigeon thing at the farm sounds like a great way to burn powder.

And get rid of PIGEONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[John Dallas]

Correct nomenclature for our training pigeons was "Ghetto Partridge" Accepable alternative - "Sky Carp"

[Mark Parela]

Call em what you want I have seen some guys make a man's wages in shot, on the other hand I have seen guys loose it all in shot.