Johnny Jahn’s SC Trap gun

[Scott Janowski]

A great story on a Parker single that is in the ATA Museum.
https://youtu.be/59Zid_UDZac?si=dg8ydtR9ZZRt6gl3

[Drew Hause]

https://photos.smugmug.com/Trap-Skeet/Parker/i-tZRC4d9/0/M5KbXgHRfSgpSRvxTwTVdvpg7g8njLndN6VwHJb75/M/Parker%20Shooter-M.png (https://drewhause.smugmug.com/Trap-Skeet/Parker/i-tZRC4d9/A)

[John Davis]

Thanks for sharing that video. It’s always fascinating to me that people are so surprised that these old SBT’s shoulder so well. I’m “told” all the time how my Parkers shoot too flat for a “real” trap gun and how I really should be shooting a modern gun if I want to be truly competitive. I suppose, but any targets I miss aren’t the guns fault. And according to the pattern board, my Parker SBT shoots 90/10 dead center. Sounds like a real trap gun to me.

[CraigThompson]

Heck when I had the unsingle trap barrel on the K-32 it only shot 70/30 . But the unsingle barrel the trap doubles barrel and the skeet barrel all patterned 70/30 . I’m still a firm believer in one stock and change the barrels !

[Jim DiSpagno]

John, I had a neighbor who has since passed. He thought he was a good trap shooter and spent many thousands of dollars on guns and equipment. Well, I would sometimes go and shoot when he was practicing and I could keep up using my Old Man's Win.model 24 16ga.He would get pissed and blame the equipment or some other excuse. He passed suddenly from a heart attack and shortly thereafter, his high end special order trap gun from Europe arrived. He paid 35k for it and it sat for years. Wife sold it for a few hundred dollars at a yard sale when she was moving. Stupid is as stupid does I guess

[Scott Janowski]

The serial number dates it to 1934, it shows that records are available. It would be fun to find out if it was ordered by him or Hercules Powder Company.

[Bill Murphy]

Sorry, 1934 is many years past the end of the order books. A 1934 PGCA letter would not normally show any information on the original buyer of the gun.

[Scott Janowski]

I had a Skeet gun from 1936 and the factory letter had the owners name.

[Bill Murphy]

I used the word normally, which is correct. For forty bucks, give it a shot.

[CraigThompson]

I had a Skeet gun from 1936 and the factory letter had the owners name.

Was that the little VHE 20 ? That was a nice little gun btw !

[Scott Janowski]

Yes. That was a nice example. Thanks.

[Phil Yearout]

Glad to see a Parker SBT honored, but those guys acted like they'd never seen a Parker before, or that this was the last one in existence :rolleyes:

[Scott Janowski]

It seems they do not have a lot of experience with Parker’s.

[Bill Murphy]

That is quite true, but they're performing a service for ATA.

[GunnerGrilli]

What I find interesting is that in Johnny Jahn's picture (both pictured in this post as well as the start of the video) it appears that the Parker SBT that he is shooting is a Pistol Grip, and obviously the SBT in the video production is a Straight Grip. He could of course, have more than one :)


Would be neat to see the letter.



Thanks!!


Bobby