Huh????

Dave,

Ed Muderlak showed me several live bird guns with this feature. I just skimmed through the two books of his on my shelf and could not find a picture. As I remember there was a pigeon in the circle where the dogs head would be and it was flying left to right.

Harry

The vast majority of twelve gauge Parker doubles were made with thirty-inch barrels and many were used in shooting live bird competitions as well as trap shooting with clays. These guns didn't necessarily have a hard rubber buttplate with the flying pigeon.
Parker Bros. made promotional guns with the flying pigeon buttplate that had the words "The Parker" above and "Trap Gun" below the flying pigeon. Folsom for a short time was the only supplier of these guns and the ones they sold were ordered from PB with "The Folsom" above and "Trap Gun" below. There are no known hammerless Parkers with the flying pigeon buttplate.

So, not all Parker trap guns had the flying pigeon buttplate - only a relatively small number of promotional guns as well as those ordered by Folsom had the flying pigeon buttplate.

All this according to The Parker Story.

There are pictures of both of these styles of flying pigeon buttplates in TPS.





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Dean, I don't recall any of the pigeon buttplates having "The Folsom" embossed on the buttplate. However, your statement that the pigeon buttplate had nothing to do with live pigeon guns was correct. I am not familiar with any dedicated live pigeon gun sporting the "pigeon" buttplate.

Here are the two butt plates. I don't own these guns anymore.

I stand corrected - Thanks Bill. I thought I had a picture or two with Folsom on the buttplate but apparently I don't. And there is no reference in TPS of such a buttplate. Apologies to all.






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Great info, guys - really appreciate it! Lots of history with this gun - if only it could talk! I'm guessing because of the Morgan adjustable pad, it was primarily a trap gun, with characteristics of a live bird gun.
She had been sitting in a closet for many, many years - glad I can renew her life!