Paul, we should not sit next to each other at an auction. The auctioneer would have trouble determining who had the bid.:rotf: (BTW, you have good taste in guns:whistle:)

Well, I really enjoy your posts. Nothing exciting happening here in the smokies today except picking up a set of 20 barrels after having a dent removed. Where is Bruce today, he always kicks in some meaningful info.? You guys are the best!

Where in the Smokies, Alfred? What wonderful country!

We're in Gatlinburg. Was called back into the military after 9/11 and did another 8 years before returning to TN and retirement to sell real estate. Enjoyed a lot of gun shows and picked up a Parker or two there. Always enjoy seeing what everyone is doing on the forum. Just sold a nice cabin for a client who was a B52 pilot back in the day.

Me too Phil. It all started with my Dads VH that needed fixing. Somehow I ended up with a variety of Parker’s that wouldn’t interest any auction house. I used them to learn how to completely disassemble repair and reassemble making safe shooters of all. There are a few quite nice guns and a few beaters and a group that anyone could take into the field and not worry about a scratch or two but take as much game as limits and ability allows. To answer the question there’s no Parker I’d pass on if the price was realistic and my toy budget could accommodate. Cheers Jack

I won't buy any gun I'm afraid to bring into the field or shoot (probably can't afford it anyways). Likewise I won't buy any old cane fly rod I'd be afraid to fish with.

WINCHESTER 24
 

Wish I had read this sooner. I feel depressed. Just shipped to my gunsmith the stock and forearm of a 12 gauge Model 24 on Friday. Someone put an elaborate checkering pattern on the forearm wood. They thinned the original stock, put a silver cap with a mountain scene on the pistol grip bottom, and added a Pachmayr White-Line pad. But they did not checker it. So it's off to add a period correct red Winchester pad and checker the stock to match the forearm wood.

I have two of them, the custom one and an unaltered one. On both of them the chokes are marked modified and full on the barrel flats. Both are actually improved cylinder and full. Great choke combination and I suspect all of them came that way. I've had great luck shooting them at doves. Not pretty but they apparently fit me well and at 7 1/2 pounds there is no recoil. I would buy a 20 gauge Model 24 in a minute.

Winchesters marked "modified" generally measure out to "improved cylinder". Your gun was probably not modified from its original configuration.

j a you and me must be the odd pair I too like the old Winchester 24 and the stevens 311....these are work horses for sure.....charlie

Both made twenty years apart measure exactly the same, I.C. and Full. I am sure they have not been opened for no evidence of it.