What kind of ugly on a Parker do you hate??

[Craig Larter]

I like solid Parkers that show honest hunting wear. What drives me nuts are ugly damascus barrels. I have no issue with properly restored damascus barrels. How about you??

[edgarspencer]

I much prefer a D4 pattern over Bernard.

[Rick Losey]

ugly? I have a project PH that has gold gilding on part of the fore-end metal

worse yet is that the fore-end is not serial numbered to the gun- so no telling how bad the whole gun it came from would have looked pimp'ed up

[Craig Budgeon]

I can stand a lot of ugly on a hunting gun as long as it shoots where I point it. Guns who reside in the safe and are show and tell peices better look good and not embarass me. Since I do much of my own work I probably don"t wait as long as most to address an iissue. Finally, I once saw an american double that had the wood refiniished and the receiver recased, the work was high quality, however, the damascus barrels were left with there original finish. In my opinion the gun deserved a place in the back of the gun safe where I didn't have to look at it.

[Kevin McCormack]

My all time favorite is the Dremel-pencilled SSN diagonally across the floorplate, especially on smallbores!

[David Noble]

I once had a CHE 12ga 30" barreled gun that someone had used a torch to color the receiver. It wasn't too bad looking actually. What made me sell the gun was a large duck flying across the bottom of the floorplate with a big silly smile on it's beak. It's head was angled slightly enough that it looked like the duck was glancing back and laughing at me after I had missed the shot. I quickly grew tired of the humiliation and sold it. :cuss:

[chris dawe]

Effed up screws,hands down

[Dave Noreen]

Hot blued barrels.

[Chris Travinski]

Effed up screws,hands down

Definitely bad screws. Honest wear and tear don't bother me in the least, but bad screws and scars from grandpa's Stanly screwdrivers make me cringe.

[Garry L Gordon]

Non-original beavertails. :shock:

[Chad Hefflinger]

White line pads…

[Phillip Carr]

I hate all guns that have been over sanded and poorly poorly re checkered.

[Arthur Shaffer]

Hot blued barrels.

Hot blued recievers.

[Russell E. Cleary]

White line pads…

They're OK if your father put one on the stock of the Parker he bought from a local farmer in the 1950s, so it would fit him; and of the four Parkers he owned it was his go-to game-getter -- possibly because of that unorthodox alteration.


Heritage!

[Garry L Gordon]

They're OK if your father put one on the stock of the Parker he bought from a local farmer in the 1950s, so it would fit him; and of the four Parkers he owned it was his go-to game-getter -- possibly because of that unorthodox alteration.


Heritage!

Russell, your gun sounds like a treasure. Beauty is as beauty was, and it was a beauty to your father.

[tom tutwiler]

Guns sanded down to the point there is no checkering left.

[Mike Koneski]

Pachmayr pad with that ugly as sin white line spacer! They're OK for a rifle, but they scream "below average trap shooter" to me. I'm fine with replacement pads that are not period correct, but that white line jumps out and grabs my eyeballs and will not let go. That's the first thing I do on a "new" Parker if it has one. Otherwise, I can tolerate a lot in a solid gun that breaks clays and kills birds.

[Alfred Houde]

Buggered-up screws, pads on a small-bore, pads in general...

[Dean Romig]

CUT BARRELS…:shock:





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[Stan Hoover]

Pachmayr pad with that ugly as sin white line spacer! They're OK for a rifle, but they scream "below average trap shooter" to me. I'm fine with replacement pads that are not period correct, but that white line jumps out and grabs my eyeballs and will not let go. That's the first thing I do on a "new" Parker if it has one. Otherwise, I can tolerate a lot in a solid gun that breaks clays and kills birds.

What is your go to pad when correcting this problem?

[Paul Ehlers]

My list in no particular order.

Awful replacement wood that's poorly fit.

Poorly executed split head repairs.

Grade-3 & higher guns with the skeleton butt cut-off for a butt ugly pad installation unless documented it was ordered with a pad.

Any metal refinishing where it's obvious the polishing was done on a buffing wheel. I.E. rounded edges, removed or over buffed lettering or engraving etc.

Loose ribs or ones that some Bodger attempted to fix with some type of gum-pucky from the local hardware store.

Guns with so much drop at heel that they make the gun look like a banana.

Buggered screws.

Poorly done re-case hardening resulting in gaudy case colors.

Heavy rust & pitting.

Oil-soaked wood.

This is only a partial list, but you probably get the idea.

Then my personal subjective one is barrels over 30" in length:shock::whistle:

[Phil Yearout]

Most price tags :eek: ;).

[George Lang]

Engraved animals and birds that are unrealistic.

[edgarspencer]

Engraved animals and birds that are unrealistic.

That covers about 75% of the guns.

[Garry L Gordon]

That covers about 75% of the guns.

:rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf:

[Mike Koneski]

What is your go to pad when correcting this problem?

Hawkins or Silvers. Plus it’s an easy way to gain LOP.

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Stocks that have the owners SS # carved in, Gary

[Dean Romig]

Or barrels that have a former owner’s drivers license number scratched into beautiful “finest Damascus” barrels…





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[Bill Murphy]

The fifties and sixties phenomenon of scratching out "Damascus Steel" on the rib and replacing it with a roughly stamped "TiTanIc Steel" and bluing over the Damascus finish. As Elmer Keith would say, "I was there." Where are all those guns now? There used to be five of them at every small town show.

[Mills Morrison]

Hot bluing and honed barrels

[allen newell]

my face engraved on the frame.

[Dave Tercek]

Raised ribs

[Mike Koneski]

Raised ribs

Dave, if you have never crushed clays with a Parker raised rib live bird gun, you're missing out on much awesomeness!! :rotf:

[Mike Koneski]

My list in no particular order.

Awful replacement wood that's poorly fit.

Poorly executed split head repairs.

Grade-3 & higher guns with the skeleton butt cut-off for a butt ugly pad installation unless documented it was ordered with a pad.

Any metal refinishing where it's obvious the polishing was done on a buffing wheel. I.E. rounded edges, removed or over buffed lettering or engraving etc.

Loose ribs or ones that some Bodger attempted to fix with some type of gum-pucky from the local hardware store.

Guns with so much drop at heel that they make the gun look like a banana.

Buggered screws.

Poorly done re-case hardening resulting in gaudy case colors.

Heavy rust & pitting.

Oil-soaked wood.

This is only a partial list, but you probably get the idea.

Then my personal subjective one is barrels over 30" in length:shock::whistle:


Paul, tell us how you really feel!! :rotf::rotf: :clap:

[henderson Marriott]

Really badly butchered screws, non-rust blued/browned barrels, and badly installed non-period pads on higher grades that used to have a beautiful skeletal steel butt plate.

[Michael Moffa]

Red Dot sights.