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John Dallas 11-08-2014 09:30 PM

Craig - I dunno, but I'm getting tired of hearing about the 250 ( or whatever) deer you have "plowed/smoked/crushed" with a collection of non-Parker guns. If you're going to burn up our pixels, how about joining the PGCA, and dialing down the rhetoric?

CraigThompson 11-08-2014 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by George Lander (Post 150632)
Archibald Rutledge in his book "Home By The River" writes of his boyhood home, Hampton Plantation, on the South Santee River at McClellanville between Charleston & Georgetown, South Carolina. He returned to his childhood home late in life after living most of his adult life in the North. Hampton Plantation is now owned by the South Carolina State Park Service & is open to the public including his home. I believe a Parker shotgun is mentioned in this work.

Best Regards, George

I seem to remember reading somewhere he shot one or two Parkers so much that they were unfixable . Now I realize "unfixable" is a relative term with most folks . I assume what was meant by that was he shot them loose and at the time no one was inclined to shall we say "tighten them back up" .

Mills Morrison 11-08-2014 10:52 PM

The barrels on one of his Parker's blew out. He hunted it pretty hard.

Rick Losey 11-09-2014 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Mills Morrison (Post 150640)
The barrels on one of his Parker's blew out. He hunted it pretty hard.

I expect something like an obstruction, i doubt you can shoot enough through a barrel in several lifetimes to thin a barrel to the danger point

(even if we cannot agree in a score of threads what that danger point is :corn: )

Destry L. Hoffard 11-09-2014 07:56 PM

He supposedly made box style turkey calls and sold them mail order. I believe there's a photo of one that's attributed to him in one of the call collectors books.

charlie cleveland 11-09-2014 08:06 PM

bet one of those box calls would be hard to come by nowadays..charlie

Mills Morrison 11-10-2014 09:05 AM

He did make calls and I have a book with a picture of one in it. That would be a real collector's item

Ray Masciarella 11-10-2014 08:46 PM

I have collected turkey calls for many years and have only seen one of his box calls. They are rare and very collectible. The call he is holding in the photo is his call.


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