Robin Hood

[Matt Michael]

I've just recently started collecting Parkers...It got me to thinking about one evening when I was a teenager, I was board so I decided to see if I could shoot some bats flying around my parents place. Dad was not home and the only shells I could find looked old and were marked Robin Hood. I shot about half the box If i remember correctly. I found it odd that they were made out of paper and not plastic. Has anyone ever heard of them or seen a box of them?

Ohh if only i had a time machine so I could go back and kick that dumb teenagers butt. :banghead:

[Bruce Day]

Robin Hood shotshells were made in Vermont. A box sold a couple years back for $1200.

Paper shotshells are readily available from Federal. Their 1 oz 2 3/4dram 12ga makes a nice target load. It would be little cheaper than shooting Robin Hood shells.

The Robin Hood company reps shot Parkers. These photos were posted here a few years ago.

I am not a shotshell collector nor a historian, and I'm sure others know much more than me, but the short answer to your question is "yes".

[Matt Michael]

wow, thanks so much for the photos. I never knew that. I will share that with my Dad.

[Mark Landskov]

The 'Robin Hood' name disappeared in 1919. In my 40 years of collecting, I can recall two or three individual specimens for sale. There were a handful of companies in the late 19th century that were 'acquired' by the bigger outfits, like UMC, in the early 20th century. RH was one of, possibly, the very last independent ammunition manufacturer. I collect WRA Co. and UMC shotshells. They are more easy (spelled 'cheaper') to obtain than the short-lived outfits like RH. As Bruce said, Federal still makes paper, along with numerous loadings from RST.

[Angel Cruz]

Here you Matt.
http://www.gunauction.com/closed/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=5295336.0

Sorry Matt already sold a while back....

[Matt Michael]

Thanks, keep your eye open for any of them.

[Mike Shepherd]

Interesting notice below the pictures:

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Bidding on this seller's auctions is suspended until further notice. Do not initiate a transaction with this seller - you are relieved of any obligations for bids you have placed with this seller by Auction Arms.

Best,

Mike

[david ross]

Hi Bruce.
I never knew Robin Hood used a Parker i thought it was a bow and arrow.
Best Dave.

[calvin humburg]

Wards collectibles has a sale coming up the last two have had a lot of robinhood singles.

the heck with this silly bow and arrow.

you may have to spell collectibles correct to get it to come up or try wards auction.

[Bruce Day]

Hi Bruce.
I never knew Robin Hood used a Parker i thought it was a bow and arrow.
Best Dave.


The British nobility and landed gentry used Purdeys and Hollands. All the other Brits who carried and cleaned their own guns used Parkers.

Best,
Bruce Day, whose ancesters were run out of England years ago, then out of New England. I still need a temporary permit to cross the Mississippi River.

[Richard Flanders]

Must have been tough to get those permits from your B-52 or fighter or whatever you flew! What all did you fly???

[Bruce Day]

I had diplomatic immunity.

I was mission qualified aircraft commander in the B-52F,D,G and H and the C-130A, B and E. Flew in a few other aircraft but was not msn qual. Of those the B-52H is still flying and a few C-130E's are left. I am also scheduled to be scrapped in the Arizona boneyard.

[david ross]

Hi Bruce.
Are your ancesters saxon lords run out of England by the normans arfter 1066 and then they
hide on the may flower and came over the sea to new England?.
And if the lords had purdeys-hollands ect' then the surfs had Parkers good so now i know
how i came to get mine.
All the best Dave.

[Bruce Day]

Mine came here from England in the 1600's, settled in Massachusetts colony and moved west as lands opened for settlement. Not a noble in the bunch, Day (from dairy) is an Anglo-Saxon occupational name like Farmer, Smith, Tinker, etc. Just trying for a better opportunity and life, like everybody else here, then and now. My ancesters were glad to get 160 acres of prairie land. Its a common story here, we are all from someplace else.

[Bruce Day]

Rich , if you are curious, this is what I did for many years. We carried four of these, each 10,000 lbs, 9 megatons. There were about 30 of us sitting alert at any one time and it was deadly serious business. Now these too are being dismantled. Probably for the better. As the commander , I personally crawled over and around each of these for acceptance.

Each of these had many more times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb.

[Linn Matthews]

Bruce
Enlighten me please, fusion or fission? I assume the former
Thank you

Linn

[Richard Flanders]

I think that's a B53 like the one they decommissioned in New Mexico today, which was the last of it's kind in our arsenal. There's a good article on it on Drudge. The stats are impressive - 600x the Hiroshima bomb. Thank you for flying cover and keeping us safe.

[Bob Brown]

Bruce, the Robin Hood reps may have shot Parkers, but I don't think that trigger guard was connected to them. It was on a 0 frame GH16 that I bought out of Ontario, Canada. I had it for awhile before realized the serial number on the trigger guard matched the number on a skeleton steel buttplate that I was given a year or two earlier in Manitoba. I got a letter on the number and it was off a BH 12 that was made for a professional shooter named William M. Ferguson from Grand Forks, ND, who shot under the name Robin Hood. Bill Murphy was kind enough to share that information. Ferguson ordered it from W.G. Neilands and Company in Winnipeg and had it shipped directly to North Dakota. The butt plate came from a Winnipeg gunsmith that shut down in the mid 30's if I recall correctly. I would have liked to have seen that BH. Shipped in 1897 it lettered with the engraving, 30" Titanic barrels, Lyman sight, and a Monte Carlo stock.