Sure drinks alot of something !

B C says in the Guns International ad that "the gun has obviously been fired". Where you fellows are finding his statement that the gun has not been fired, I haven't a clue.

Case colors are extremely hard to accurately photograph. We have had Parker Pages articles about being cautious in making statements about guns, particularly adverse statements, on the basis of photos without personal examination.

Looks like a potentially fine, collector quality gun warranting close personal examination if a person was interested in buying.

The ad states that there is a note from the second owner, indicating that Runge did the engraving and that the gun was unfired. The present owner feels that the gun has been 'fired sparingly' since this note was written.

Since it is very unlikely a Parker has "never" been "fired" it probably makes no real difference if you like what you see. I wish the guns I own had only been fired 100 times each! Seems like a really nice gun but expensive!!! I have bought guns like this before and then regretted it because they were too nice to taking hunting!!!

Roger that Ray!

I love a beautiful gun but I think that each of my guns deserves to be shot and hunted. I have a few safe queens that are hopefully appreciating in value. Even with them, I gingerly shoot a few ducks and geese over a pond. If I owned a gun like the subject one, it would do the same!

Mark

Watch out!!
 

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I've done some digging and came up with the following dirt on this most unsavory character.

After being thrown out of no less than 8 midwestern universities and finally both Harvard and Yale (where he was studying to become a nuclear rocket brain surgeon) B.C. became a legend on the underground Roe Sham Boe circuit.

Now he crashes weddings and Bar Mitzvahs and plays unwitting party guests for their drinks. After an evenings consumption of his ill gotten gains you might hear him mutter (in a drunken stupor),"Rock may crush scissors, but paper always smothers rock".

He in fact posed for the following emoticons; :cheers: :glug: and signs all his correspondance "Cheers".

Draw your own conclusions

:biglaugh:

http://www.bckinsey.com/

I came on here in defense of my buddy B C but now I see him for the rascal Nebraskan that he is. He often has nice guns and good sources.

This post has taken a turn in the wrong direction, I have no reason to question this guy's intentions. Please don't interpret this post as an attempt to bash B C Kinsey, I have corresponded with him via e-mail before and he has been nothing less than a gent to me. The thing that caught my eye on this gun was the opening lever, it looks like a cyanide color job while the rest of the gun is bone charcoal. Once again I came to source for the experts opinions because I thought that was the point of this site, not to bash a guy trying to make a living.

Chris, it does look like cyanide color on the lever. I would like to see the forend latch to see if that too was cyanide colored too. Remington may have been hardening some of the smaller parts with the cyanide process and the larger parts such as the frame and forend iron with the bone charcoal process... There could be any number of explanations for this... perhaps it went back to Remington at a later date to replace the lever... who knows.... ?

Why would the roll pin be out of line ?