One of the great benefits of always showing up with and shooting different Parkers at my skeet club has been that whenever a member or a friend of a member discovers a long-forgotten family Parker they inevitably bring it for me to see and often offer to sell it to me. And now a few more members are really enjoying shooting various old side-by-side shotguns both at the club as well as upland birds and waterfowl.

Charles Pfleger, owner of Hill Rod and Gun, got the bug for a nice S/S when I hunted pheasants with him on his father in laws land in Montana. He had a family mod 12, I had my VHE20. He was hooked and is now a dealer of nice English and other dbl guns. He even owns and shoots a Holland hammer gun that is I believe S/N 6 or something like that. The surrounding S/N's are all in the Holland museum.... I've shot it. What a beautiful gun it is.

The first gun my dad gave me was a SXS and that's all I've ever shot except one or two single barrel trap guns. When I got back into shooting clays 10 or 12 years ago it was with a H&K SxS. Got a friend interested when he tried my first Parker hammergun with lots of DAH. Said he couldn't lift his head because it was already up [ so he could look down the rib ]. Sold that H&K shortly there after and only shot the old SxS's with around 3" DAH. I then took over the shotgun venue at our club and being tired of doing registered sporting clays shoots he and I decided to put on SxS Shoots. There's probably 30% of the shotgunners now shooting SxSs at my club. Yes when we go to other clubs our guns get attention, especially the ones with damascus barrels.

My Dad gave me a 28" Trojan M/F when I was 17 and I used it to kill countless Quail, most of them in the woods. I did'nt know you were supposed to use open chokes. I still have that gun and it has 2 7/8" DAH. Would'nt sell it for the world.