I hope and pray that sweet little Parker will come your way while you are still young enough to shoot grouse and quail over Twombly setters with it Legh.






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I am always on the look out for and would love to add Parker Bros serial
# 207429, which is:

DHE 20 ga on a #1 frame, no safety, PG, SFE, DT, with 34" titanic barrels weighing in at 8 and 1/2 pounds.

I also would not turn my nose up at a 34" fluid steel barreled 10 ga hammerless gun.

I'd love it if I found a rescue grade 3 20 bore with D4 barrels, but I wouldn't turn away a safe queen either. There's room for her slippers under my work bench.

I'd like to add an AAHE 28ga. with 32" barrels but it ain't going to happen in my lifetime!

A Pigeon configured 12, straight grip, no safety, 32” tubes...graded higher than V.
Gr.3 early lifter hammers
A total “basket case” smallbore that still goes (BANG)!
Fox “skeet and upland” or “brush gun” in 16

Great year for me this year, scored a nice original configured 3 frame GH 12 and a really decent first year lifter 10, $150 dollar grade.

As always, any Parker could be the right Parker. Also a 32" CSMC RBL 12,

I would like a GHE from the Remington era. A 12 gauge on a half frame would be perfect. Some original catalogs would be great too

A 20 GA. TROJAN IN DECENT CONDITION OR A 16GA. VH ALSO IN DECENT CONDITION

As always, a Damascus ejector set of barrels 30" 16 gauge for an O frame so that I can finally bring back my AHE to the way it was born........

Parkers wanted
 

I would like to find an affordable .410.
The one I did find has had the side cheek wood surgically replaced for some reason.
The same guy has a 32" DHE 20 ga with a straight grip and a beavertail forend; all original, but that one's really expensive.:eek:

Larry, tell us about the .410. A .410 stock was recently sold on this site.

.410
 

No, the individual still has the gun. His eyes nearly popped out of his head when I pointed the flaw out to him; he was obviously unaware of the issue.

Huh... A 16g Optimus? As far as i know there is only one known to exist and remains in a long time private collection. A few “clones” are known of. Was it one of those?

If all of the original Lefever factory records were lost in the fire, how would we know that only one Optimus in 16 gauge was ever made?

Please forgive my ignorance if tha answer is obvious.





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Well,
One can not be sure, I suppose. That is where vetting each example comes into play i suppose, no different than any other maker. Like i said, one 16g is known of and that one was connected to Charles Green. 2 copies are known to exist (engraved nearly identical to the green gun).

The Lefever Optimus is one of the most copied high grade shotguns out there. And the lack of records is exactly the reason why.

There is more than 1 authentic 16ga Optimus Lefever extant. And yes, that is on my 2018 wishlist.

Some day I’d like to own an A-1 Special Parker. Finding one that is totally original is a difficult thing to do. Maybe in 2018!

For me its simple, an old well used hammer gun!

A 20 ga. Bernard. I’ve looked for one for years. There are several in 16 ga, I have one. A handful of 20 gauges are listed, but none are known in the collecting community, at least to me.

Bruce , That Beautiful Little 20 with the Roundrell engraving ,what Barrels is it wearing ,I remembered those as being Bernard ,so much for my memory ! You wouldn't happen to have a picture or two to share with us would you ?

A nice 12 ga Gh 2 frame for about 1200

My want is simple. I am after a nice, original condition 26" VH (or VHE) 20 gauge with open chokes.

I would like to find a 12ga C or D with a grouse on it. Since I hit so few of them it would help to remind me what they look like.

:rotf: Now that is funny but I suspect quite a few can relate!

Another 20 ga Trojan with 26 inch barrels that I can restore and hold for my second grandson when he's old enough. I would willingly trade my GHE with fitted 26 inch Q1/Q2 Repro barrels for an honest 20 ga Trojan

My 3 frame DH 12 32" is on the way and should arrive today/tomorrow.......fingers crossed! Thanks Craig!

I am still on the hunt for a Heavy 16 fluid steel 30 or 32" any grade.

.....and I would like to buy another 1 or 2 Widgeon Duck Club guns....:rotf::rotf::rotf:

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My wants may have been satiated for a while, as I was finally able to find, and afford, a higher grade Parker. It's a 16 gauge AH on a 1 frame (and weighs 6 lbs. 8 oz.). It was made in 1927, and unfortunately no records exist for it. What a wonderful little gun. My thanks to the gentleman who ordered it without ejectors and with a lighter than normal weight -- just as I would have.

How about sharing some pics of such a wonderful upland gun???

Yes, pictures please.





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Let's see, picked up a 12 ga grade 4 with 30" Titanic tubes and a 16ga grade 3 with 29" Damascus tubes. Looking for a grade 5 hammer 12 ga.

Soooo close
 

I did not plan on adding another Parker till at least late Summer or Fall. While browsing the usual auction sights I stumbled upon Parker 41732. Grade 0 10, top lever hammer that has been sanded with an old refinish. Plain and simple. However my late Father gave me 41730. It gets better. The gun is located no more than 50 miles from where I grew up in northern Wisconsin. I would believe they may have been sold from the same hardware store which used to be located in the Twin Cities. For these two guns to be that close in proximity at one time and of course 2 #'s apart blows my mind. Its the only Parker I own that I would like pair with another, be the same configuration, and be as close as possible in serial #. The gun is on Gun Broker. I will try to purchase this gun..... I know my Dad would be as amazed as much as I hope to be. Yes Mr. Romig I can hear the PPS story writing itself too :)

I had planned to have a gun moratorium for all of 2018. Well, that has already gone out the window and a Grade 1 12 gauge top lever hammer gun with laminated barrels is on the way as we speak. Having thrown that resolution out, I hope to get some more examples of Grade 2 Parkers, particularly from eras not represented in my collection.