Last Call for Parker Pages Material

[Dean Romig]

For those who had intended to contribute articles for the Autumn Issue of Parker Pages, Monday July 16 is the deadline.
Please contact me if you are having difficulty with anything that might prevent you from meeting that deadline and I will do anything I can to assist you.
Once again, I want to make the usual request for good, well-researched technical articles as we never have enough it seems. It would be nice to have a small library of such articles so we will accept such articles any time you feel you have a 'finished product' that we can add to our library.

Best, Dean

[Rich Anderson]

It's to hot to write...they call it writers block...I'll try to loosen things up with some Buffalo Trace (my new best Burbon..try it you'll like it). Maybe it's time to raid the forum:bigbye:

[Dean Romig]

Rich, how about putting together a tech or research article on the "Hollywood Gun" with hi-def pictures?

[Dave Suponski]

That would be awesome! And WE KNOW you can write well.....:bowdown:

[Rich Anderson]

It's 82 degrees IN THE HOUSE:cuss: The wife thinks it's wonderfull, no need for the AC:banghead:. I'm heading for the basement. Somewhere I have a copy of the PGCA letter for that gun. It doesn't say much just the description as a GHE with all the options sent from Parker in Illion to Montgomery Ward in Chicago. I'm not much into the tech side of things.

[Bill Murphy]

I have always thought that "raiding the forum" was a good filler, but that was not utilized to any extent.

[Dean Romig]

Others may wish to "raid the forum" and put the posts into a reasonably assembled text document but I really don't think that's what our readership at large expects from Parker Pages... I may be wrong. In the meantime I will continue to solicit well-researched technical and historical articles for publication. I have absolutely nothing against the discussions on the forum and I probably post to the forum at least as much as anyone else but at least two thirds of our membership are not "connected" and most of them wish not to be.
We have some exceptionally good technicians and historians in our organization who can put together a fine article as well as some very good writers in the areas of shooting and hunting who also have written some great stories for our journal. So, for those who can and do write - please keep it up, we really do like to read your great contributions. And for those who haven't but think they might... please do and send them to me.

[George M. Purtill]

Rich, how about putting together a tech or research article on the "Hollywood Gun" with hi-def pictures?

what is the Hollywood Gun??
sounds like a wonderful article.

[Rich Anderson]

George the "Hollywood Gun" is a GHE 16ga skeet gun on a #1 frame. Its a late production gun 1941 I think. The gun is a two bbl set both being 28 inches, one choked skt/skt the other M/F. Both bbls have their own BTF and vent ribs. A straight stock and SST rounds out the options. The gun went to Alex Kerrs in Hollwood and the engraveing was redone in a much finer and more elaborate style than a std GHE and the birds were done in gold and the background stippled to bring them out. With it's connection to Kerrs a dealer in Hollywood, Ca it gets it's name "The Hollywood" gun. It's a go to gun for me on the clays course.

[Dean Romig]

And that gun deserves a nice Parker Pages article...

How much digging have you done Rich, in trying to discover which 1940's movie star or Hollywood mogul might have ordered that gun through Kerr's? That would be a fantastic piece of valuable provenance.

[Rich Anderson]

Kerrs as you has been colsed for a very long time. There was a DGJ article on them and I tried to contact the daughter to see if there eas any way to trace this but no response. The trunk case has the name William Bradford who I was told (and this I checked out) was a Major General in the US Army and was part of the US team on the bombing of Herishoma and commander of a S.A.C. base, there is a golf course named for him on a base in Arizona I believe. I can't positively connect him to the gun with any type of tangable proof of ownership nor can I connect anyone to the engraving. Kevin McKormic looked at it once and thought it might have been done by the CA firm that donates the guns to DU and has done many upgrades I just can't think of his name right now. I bought the gun from Steve Barnett and I know who had it one other time. Steve got the gun from a retired NFL player who now lives in NJ which would explain it's original short stock and 4 inches of drop, those guys have no necks!

At the end of the day I have a lot of maybe this ,maybe that but very little hard facts other than the PGCA letter that it's configuartion is original and the date it was shipped. I have the trunk case with Kerrs insignia also.

[George M. Purtill]

George the "Hollywood Gun" is a GHE 16ga skeet gun on a #1 frame. Its a late production gun 1941 I think. The gun is a two bbl set both being 28 inches, one choked skt/skt the other M/F. Both bbls have their own BTF and vent ribs. A straight stock and SST rounds out the options. The gun went to Alex Kerrs in Hollwood and the engraveing was redone in a much finer and more elaborate style than a std GHE and the birds were done in gold and the background stippled to bring them out. With it's connection to Kerrs a dealer in Hollywood, Ca it gets it's name "The Hollywood" gun. It's a go to gun for me on the clays course.
What a gun. I apologize for being such an old Newbie and thanks for enlightening me.
Im trying to track a gun that went to Hollywood as well. #127068, a BHE

[Rich Anderson]

No apologies needed. These guns are an endless learning experience.

[John Dallas]

Is the gun possibly a Pachmyer upgrade? Can it be traced back through them?

[Rich Anderson]

No it can't. Here are some pics of the engraving. If anyone has an idea or suggestion I'm all ears.

[George M. Purtill]

Wow
Like they say in rapper movies-"Hollywood!"

[Dean Romig]

It does not have the characteristics of a Pachmayr upgrade in my opinion.

[George M. Purtill]

It does not have the characteristics of a Pachmayr upgrade in my opinion.

For an "upgrade" it is very tasteful.

[Dean Romig]

Actually, I wouldn't call it an "upgrade" but rather a very nice, professionally embellished Grade 2.

[Rich Anderson]

Here's my thought on this. It was ordered for inventory at Marshall Fields and General Bradford who was a customer of Alex Kerr wanted something special in a small bore trap/skeet gun with all the options and perhaps nicer than a grade 2. Seeing this was the only thing available Parker might have directed Alex Kerr to Marshall Field to obtain the gun and from there it's anybody's guess as who did what to it.

Either way at the end of the day it's a unique Parker that after several owners and 70+ years of service is still asking more questions than it ansers.

[Daryl Corona]

Get those floorplate screws timed you12q Cheap Old Bas@#%&! Although you do shoot it very well them being untimed must affect the syngergy of the gun. When that happens the karma goes out the window and you'll end up selling it to me.:cool:

[Rich Anderson]

The screws don't know what time it is, and that would take away an excuse and I need all of them I can get.