The Lawyer's gun is merely the Doctor's gun, after the Doctor has passed.

And once again the widow is ‘saved’ from having to dispose of those worthless old guns.





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The old grouse gunners in my hometown of Pawling, NY, shot Parkers and Foxes but mostly Parkers. As far as I know they were Trojans and VH guns. My grandfather was well off and ordered two DHE's to supplement his VH 20 bore that he bought from an old market hunter. I asked him why he didn't buy higher grade guns and he said that the DHE's suited him just fine. The only other DHE I knew about was owned by Doc Morrison, the doctor who delivered my father.

I envy your grandfather Tom. When I got my first VH I thought I would be perfectly content with it. Then i wanted a DH a now I have 2 Cs, one with ejectors of all things.

Oh to know one's place in the world and be content with the knowledge,

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Could call the Browning Auto-5 a doctor's gun based on the thumbs and fingers that have been mauled by the action. I've witnessed a couple buddies' day ruined by them. Ouch!

Dave, the inability to properly operate a shotgun is rampant among most casual shooters. Go to your local gun club and watch shooters hit themselves in the nose with ejected shells, completely unaware of where those shells came from.

I give one of the guys a pass because it was his late brother's A5 and being unfamiliar with an A5 he "touched the hot stove." The other guy knows better.

I am a collector, so I always regret that my grandfather did not buy more Parkers and higher grades. But he was a hunter and just bought the guns he thought he needed. He had no idea that the Parker gun business would end and that the gun would be such a valuable collectors firearm. He realized that later in life but at the time his guns were tools and not potential collector guns. Although he always held the Parker in high esteem. He knew they were special and always referred to them as his Parkers, not his shotguns. I knew, from a very young age that Parkers were special. My grandfather told me that and in my opinion, he was always right. And I remember from my earliest days seeing them in the gun rack. They looked special even to my adolecent eyes.

One more thing Bill, cherish the ejector gun. I always regretted that the VH 20 did not have them. If you reload, pop the shells into your hand and delight in the wonderful sound of the thunk as they kick the shells into your hand.