Knowledge is learned. Go to the PGCA's home page and educate yourself by studying all the links on the left. That's the place to start. Build from there by physically seeing and handling as many Parkers you can and comparing them to what you have learned from this site. I'm always learning new things I didn't know.

Lets just put it this way, NO gun should look the way that thing does. Forget parkers. No gun. Even the lowest quality ones.

A person is at risk and not serious about Parkers unless they own , read and study The Parker Story. We are fortunate to have that available.

Andy
Your not far from Hausmann’s Hidden Hollow, typically you’ll find a bunch of us there end of the first week in June. We all missed being there together last year. Some of us hit Rock Mountain the Sunday after, also Rock Mountain had a great side by side shoot last August.

Your not out in the desert, there are a lot of Parkers in those mountains.

I think I'd go $250.00.

Easy enough to say Bill. 5$? Hyperpole I hope? In the real world most of us have made mistakes as well as good deals. That is called learning.

Being new to the forum, I have relied on a few members expertise before making a decision, they have all saved me from mistakes and I thank them all.

We sometimes buy things because we may want to flip them and make a little, others we buy because we want them.

I joined to learn about these fine guns, so that I may hopefully learn and pass onto others.

Hi Brett, I planned on attending those until the COVID hit and hopefully this year will see some events. I'm ordering the book today. I've wasted that much on a bad dinner before with friends, a book on my shelf is probably money wisely spent. Thank you everyone for the great information.

I feel I know enough about what I am looking at, to feel comfortable spending up to that price on a gun. I did talk to some other people about the gun, had them check it out, and it all matched the books, etc. I had 3 days to look it over, and it was as I expected, actually a little bit nicer than I expected.

I would never spend more than that without first having the gun in hand, or a solid inspection period, etc.

I have bought a couple guns that were considerably less than $1500, and ended being a lot nicer than the price I paid. A 16ga Philly Fox comes to mind... If I make a mistake, that's on me, but I know that going in. Everybody has that price point where it becomes high enough to warrant a more thorough examination than just some pics on the web.... And for some guys it might be $5000, for others $200.....

I am not a serious collector, and buy guns I plan to use in the field.... So, spending a huge sum of money for a collector grade & condition gun has no interest to me. I would love to have guns like that, but not for the amount of money they usually require to own... Probably why I don't own a 28 or even a 20ga Parker right now. :D

That's the worst "roll stamp" I've ever seen. Outrageous.