Stu, Hold on to it because maybe one of your Grandkids might enjoy it

My grandfather's cousin took my dad to the Parker showroom in 1917 and bought him this 1 frame VHE 16 for his birthday. Even though my grandfather worked at Parker, he wouldn't buy him a gun. I don't think the old guy even knew how to bait a hook until he retired. There have been a cord of them since that time, but this one will stay. My dad took me out with him thanksgiving morning. We had just crossed a footbridge when I heard "BOOM...BOOM" (Hey when your 7, it really sounded BIG) He then says to me "You go get those two, I'll get these" That man still walks on water in my mind.

I have my Dad's Fox Sterlingworth that the owner orf the Packard dealership, where he worked as a salesman, gave him in 1919. I also have a research letter from John Callahan which states that the gun was shipped on February 26, 1919 from Fox's plant in Philadelphia to S.B. McMaster & Co. Columbia, SC.

He hunted everything with that gun & was the only gun that he owned that I remember. He carried it in the trunk of his car and over the years had become a little beat up. A few years before he passed away in 1974 I had the gun completely restored to "as-new" and gave it back to him. I can still remember the look on his face as he quietly remembered hunts, dogs and friends long past. That's the one gun that will never be sold.

Best Regards, George

I bought my SBT SC from a fellow who got it from his father in law who, as far as I know, was the original owner. The fellow, who was my dad's best friend, lost his wife to a murder. His new wife, said that she didn't want any guns in their house, so the gent offered to sell me the gun for what it'd been apprised for in the 70's. $1500.

My Single Barrel Trap Parker SC is a fantastic trap gun! Very high and straight comb, so even with a hard spot weld it shoots high, which means you have a "lot of air", but it breaks birds like mad. Strangly my hardest shot has always been the straight going away bird. I was shooting underneath it, since the bird is rising. The Parker smokes those birds, which improves my score.

I visited the local trap club. Those guys were shooting all kinds of fancy guns with do dads that adjusted the butt plate, the comb and trigger. The guns looked new. So I show up with my Parker broken open, cradled over my elbow.

"What ya shoot'n". One of the guys asked.

"Why a Parker trap gun." I relied. The guy looked at me as if I'd said I drive an old VW bus.

He glanced at my gun, looked away and said something like, "Well, yer gonna have to get something better than that old piece of s..."

I turned and walked away. Didn't join the club either.

I own, shoot and charish my Dad's Knickerbacher SxS 20 gage. His dad bought it from the fellow who became the trap champion of Kansas and gave it to my dad for his 10th birthday. I think my grandfather paid $6 for the gun. My dad and his dad hunted together for over ten years with that gun. My granddad using an old Remington model 11 in 12 gage, which I got. It had a Poly choke. When hunting ducks my grandfather had jammed it in the mud and when he shot it, it opened up the last inch or two of the gun. Thus the Poly choke. 35 years ago someone broke into my apartment and stole it.

But I still have my dad's old Knickerbacher. It was the first shotgun I shot, and from that day since I've liked two triggers. It's a side lock gun. I'll have to get a picture of it and post it. My dad had it reblued about 35 years ago. He is gone now, and so is his dad, but when I handle that old 20 I remember those two men and the great times they had together shooting ducks and bob white quail in western Kansas. It got to do it with them too and if I could relive some days, those just might be them.

stu one of your daughters may hold an ace there mite be a future shooter that you dont know about yet who will want that parker... charlie

Just gotta live that long first!