Thanks Dee.

I agree with you guys concerning the restoration of this beautiful shotgun. However, the repair costs etc. exceed my budget as of right now so I will just keep it safe in the gun safe until I am able to do so.

Dee, Please check your PMs Thanks, Jim DiSpagno

I had a friend who is a photographer come take some better photos :usa:

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Well, I'm fairly new here, but I just wanted to say thanks to Dee for sharing her story and her family history with us.

That old gun has quite a story.

Thank you Wayne! But I don't deserve the thanks...you and the Parker family do! Every single one of you have allowed me to open up and share something, that at the time and still is on some days, was a hard memory to share and open up about.

I am very proud of the cloth I was cut from. I love sharing the immense pride I have for the men and women in my family that instilled the values and respect passed on to me and my girls, the extreme gratitude to my great grandfather for being a hard working American with core values and my grandfather for his service in WWII and providing me my freedoms and showing me what a true man, marriage and family should be. I am grateful and blessed to have this Parker family to share my life and stories with. If I can keep their memories and their story alive....then they are truly never really gone. THANK YOU!

P.S. your bible verse was my dads favorite verse....thank you for sharing that today, it was much needed:)

Very interesting gun. And I would think that with some time and a little money, the gun could at least be brought back to operational condition. All the non original screws and bolts are something else. I would suspect that maybe some damage was done to the original threads in order to get hardware store bolts into the holes.
What a find though to come accross a High grade Parker with such history and use.
Though worn, I love the engraving on the gun!

I don"t know if any of you have heard the song by Blake Shelton "Grandaddy's Gun" but it"s worth a listen. When I heard it, it make me think of everyone here and smile like a little girl again. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aNM_5u-Xaw

That's a great little song Dee. I really like the sentiment in those words... even the part about the shot-up sign. Probably a lot of us older guys have done a little errant shooting at one time or other. Just wish I had done mine with my Granddaddy's gun.