Additionally, they were called "blinders.”



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This could possibly be a good thread for " Parker's Found in P.P. , for the first Skeet Stamped ,Parker ! Dean's gun is well documented especially with the A&F Letter that it is an early Skeet gun and Deans ,Reggie's and mine are all 1935 Manufactured Skeet Guns so some where between Deans 236912 and Reggies 237230 possibly is the first Parker with Stamped Barrel Flats ! Possibly Reggies gun ,I'm out with 238599 !

Good idea Russ! It would be really interesting to know who’s Skeet gun was the first to be stamped Skeet Out and Skeet In.




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My Parker DHE 28 ga. Skeet(marked skeet in and skeet out on barrel flats) is SN- 238134. Its probably in and around the middle of the Remington production of Parker skeet guns.

The one on the high house I don’t see as a hindrance but the one on the low house I’d probably pitch a bitch about when shooting from station six .

Listed today. Re-finished me thinks. No picture of the barrel flats, but may be an example of a non-straight grip skeet gun.


https://www.gunsinternational.com/gu...n_id=101802306

My 1935 Remington Skeet & Trap equipment catalog shows the "blinders" and the targets crossing station eight. The next one I have is undated but shows their skeet and trap loads with the New Remington Crimp and in the text mentions the 1939 GAH. It shows the layout with no "blinders" and the crossing point out from station eight. No "blinders" on this skeet field near Edmonds, Washington, with the 1939 club champions.

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Just finished the above post and found this from Hunting & Fishing, August 1936 --

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If Barnett showed pictures of watertables and barrel flats my file of saved pictures would be overloading my hard drive!! At least their pictures are usually in good focus.

I truely love shooting this game , wish I still had the drive to shoot a 400-500 target event every weekend for three to four months non stop as I used to do . A friend at the shop got his new K-80 32” skeet gun in yesterday and it’ll be off to Briley for insert tubes next week . He’s five or six years older than me , but he’s decided he wants to get back in the registered target game . He and I as well as plenty others that shot skeet over the past forty years have a friend in Fairfax R&G that I believe turned 89 this year , he’s the high target leader in the NSSA records and still shoots just about every shoot he can make up here or in Florida during the cold months .

Yeah Reggie, that's not the original stock or if it is the original, all the "Parker" has been lost by re-contouring the nose.





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What are the typical constrictions of guns stamped SKEET OUT and SKEET IN? I assume the constrictions likely vary by gauge.?

I wonder how many Parker guns were built as "skeet guns" from the ground up and how many became "skeet guns" later? Did Remington pull a gun from inventory and make it into a "skeet gun" when an order came in? I've recorded two 1-frame 16-gauges that are marked SKEET IN/SKEET OUT that have two date codes stamped on their barrel flats. Likewise, many guns I've seen marked SKEET IN/SKEET OUT have several repair codes on the barrel flats. A lot to speculate, and very few facts with the thin Remington era record information.

Dave, did you somehow neglect to mention the made up skeet guns made later than the closing of the Parker operation and the end of Remington repair codes?

Bill, I think Dave covered that in his question "and how many became "skeet guns" later?"

I've seen a number of those "later" Skeet guns and they're usually pretty self-evident.



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