sometimes the facts are hard to hear esp when you have an emotional attachment to something.

I do my best to avoid parkers with single triggers, vent ribs, and ejectors. Does not always work out that way but I do me best to avoid them, for the reasons Mr V explains.

No they aren't to the level of a Purdey/ etc. But I like them. I like my Parkers and that's it. Its not personal. I accept their flaws and embrace their attributes. :)

Well put John.

I even like the L C Smiths I still have

Any design can be faulted; but in the end it only needs to be so good. A Parker will last over 100 years with minimal care. That's good enough. I'd rather have a Parker with all of its positives last 100 years than a clunker that will last 1000 years.

Dewey's opinions are those of someone who has the benefit of being able to look back on a long history of gunmaking. That's a perspective not afforded a gunmaker who was actually living in the day. There are artists today who can do a better job than Monet or Van Gogh in every way, using better paints and canvases which will last much longer. There must be a reason people still pay millions for those old paintings....

He isn't comparing to modern guns. He is comparing to contemporaries, basically saying there is nothing special about an American Classic shotgun.

Yet those fine British guns were sent back each season to be stripped, cleaned and gone thru. How many of us send back our competition guns annually, despite the fact that those guns digest way more shells than a British game gun?

How many of us send back a gun ever??? Unless we find a project to work on.

I just will never forget when I got a "new" c. 1890 GH 12 gauge and my wife got a new Beretta auto. The Beretta didn't make it past the first station before malfunctioning. The GH works flawlessly to this day. It needs some new screws and is off face a little. 125 years old though

I would never consider donating to that board with the way it is run. I dont sell on there anymore because i would not want my $10 donation to be misinterpreted as me supporting it in any way.
Besides, you cant sell anything on there anyway. All the buyers are no longer around and very little is being offered.

It gives a place for those thrown from this board to live and be with their like kind.

Lol, Brian I still see you are on the fence with your opinion... :rotf:

The things some people say there, and with such absolute certainty, is astounding sometimes.

Dewey provided a lot of good information and I applaud him for doing so in such a den of vipers.

Latest post on that thread from Dewey goes into coil vs leaf springs. Very interesting.

William