It is a great article. I was interested to hear that a lot of 12 gauge Parkers from that era have 12 gauge chambers with 11 gauge bores. I think I have at least one of these myself and this explains why the bores on some of mine are so open.

I had a great place to hunt woodcock until recently. I certainly wasn't the first to find the area, and gradually more and more people were showing up. Finally, some neophyte who went as a guest with someone else decided to boast about his great day of woodcock hunting. Moron posted the location (literally) on a local internet message board. I guess being liked by strangers and sounding "cool" is more fun than hunting. Now the place looks like the parking lot at a high school football game.

I'd like to spit some beechnut in that dude's eye....

I suspect it'll be a long, long time before he's anybody's "guest" again.