From the Fox forum. Fingers crossed but looks like good news around the corner:




5/13/25 Update from DGJ:

Good News for everyone who has been waiting patiently for our much delayed Index and Reader Volume 3. They will be winging their way to you within in the next 2 weeks or sooner! Our sincere apologies for this frustrating delay. We are as relieved as you are!

Our printer confirms delivery of the finished Index & Reader Volume 3 to our warehouse by or before May 20, 2025.
All paid-for books (without other accompanying products) will be shipped directly from the Canadian printing plant initially to get it to you asap.
Orders requiring additional DGJ products, signatures, or other special attention will be packaged and shipped from Michigan as soon as we receive the remaining copies.

We will be adding the Index and Reader Vol. 3 to our webstore as soon as we have them in our warehouse. In the meantime, if you have a query about ordering, or credit on your account or anything else, please message or email Daniel or Joanna at the office and we will go through the details with you to ensure your complete satisfaction.

Thank you again for your loyalty, kind wishes, patience and understanding over what is now 36 years in total. We couldn't have done it without you!

Wonderful news!!!





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DGJ administrator posted it on their Facebook page. I never like here say from a Fox site. :)

Ken

I'll believe when I retrieve from my mailbox.
Bob Jurewicz

My USPS Informed delivery email showed on May15 a shipping label created in Pembina, ND, for media mail. This is about 2 miles from the border and I assume it is the DGJ Index Reader III.
It doesn't yet show it has been shipped.

At least one other person has said the same thing. Let’s hope it’s the case. It sure would be a cap on a great run of serving the double gun community

I spoke with Johanna a week ago, and she said the books are being shipped out of ND... on Friday of last week I received an "informed mailing", that I'll be receiving a package from
Pembina, ND.. "Labels printed, waiting for item".

I hope it's sent in a study box, like the DGJ was mailed, rather than the plastic bags that shippers now use to mail publications! NOTHING LIKE BUMPED CORNERS ON A COLLECTIBLE BOOK!

I have had one listed for about a week. The label is created when you buy the postage for the package, so I suspect it is definitely happening. The shipper would not pay postage for a phantom shipment.

I did notice that the label was created for a Media Mail shipment. Those can sometimes take a while for delivery.

Found this a short time ago:

1:04 pm May 23
Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
WEST FARGO ND NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER

Expected Delivery May 29
by 9:00pm
ZANESVILLE,OH 43701

How do you go about ordering one? Not advertised on their website

Telephone them Mills.





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I will be glad when this drama is OVER!

Thank you, thank you brother Phil. Finally someone has said it.:bowdown:

My USPS daily notice showed yesterday that it hadn't shipped yet. Today the tracking shows that it shipped and left ND with a 5/29 delivery also. Interestingly enough (but expected from the PO) today's mail update showed no packages in the system even though the tracking number shows it in transit. Don't minimize the ability of the USPS to screw this up.

Got mine today , great Index&Reader

Pete, did it come in waterproof packaging? With all this rain lately I worry…





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Pete, did you receive any prior notice of tracking information?

By the way, drama in real life, not on TV or in print, would include the assassination of a president, a deadly weather event, or the discovery of a cheating spouse. The discussion of the delayed delivery of a book would not qualify as "drama". :rolleyes::rolleyes: The Cotes are buying very little space in my brain. I'm just waiting patiently.

Seems to me that drama is wherever people create it, and it sometimes is over pretty trivial things. There’s been quite a bit created here over this in my opinion.

It came in heavy cardboard shipping box and the book was wrapped in plastic.I don’t believe I got shipping information.

They're in the System!
 

Mine just arrived here in South West Pa.!!!!! Can't wait until this evening to sit down and get a good look at it ! Finished off my Complete set from #1 Double Gun Journal magazine all the way through , including all 3 Index and Readers !!!!! Made my Day !

Great day, just received the latest edition of the Parker Pages, and the Double Gun Journal I&D 3. The Index & Reader is impressive, over 450 pages. Much more content then the previous two editions. Can not wait to start enjoying the last edition of this fine magazine that will ever be published.

Same here. I was amazed at the box. This is a book that rivals the 2 volumes of The Parker Story. Heavy, big and as noted, over 450 pages. I believe the production quality is well above the other two volumes. I looked through the TOC and it looks like I want to read every article. The visuals of each issue TOC will be really handy. Again, can't believe the production quality. Fitting end to the venture.

I was also touched by the first half of the dedication, showing a lot of class and dedication to their long time customers in the face of what they were going through. I think it shows a lot more class than many who participated on several platforms in the negative diatribe that went on for the last several years.

Just received my 3rd Volume also today here in AZ. What a nice suprise! The Cotes and staff really did an excellent and outstanding job! I actually forgot all about it, which makes it just that much better when I saw that large shipping box in my entry after work today. The wait was well worth it!
Chris, Az

Looks like Mr. Yearout has an article in the DGJ on 16 gauge guns. Glad to see the article made it in.

Ken

Received mine today upon my return home.
Everything we could have hoped for! Beyond fantastic!




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Got my surprise package today, what a wonderful compilation, better than anyone could have dreamed. I met Phillip and Johanna several times at the Southern. They are good folks, always gave us a quality product, and evidently had some hard times and swallowed a pill that none of us would want to swallow.
Thanks to both Cotes for this effort, quality, and for finishing a project that they promised to, when walking away may have been a better financial decision.

I am still awaiting my Index. I did receive my Parker Pages though.

Mine arrived today if W New York.
Bob Jurewicz

I've got a call in to order mine.

I received my Index and Reader Volume lll today. It is everything I expected. Thanks to the Cote family for carrying it through. Bill Murphy

DGJ I&R arrived in NOVA land today. Interestingly, no prior routing info, notifications, or other in-route notations per some earlier posters received along the way - it just showed up in the regular mail.

I would just like to get my PP :banghead:

I had heard of Parker shotguns but had never seen one. They are few and far between my my part of the country. As the son of a WWII vet, I grew up with a father that used a semi-auto shotgun in the field. My first shotgun was an American Gun Company tewnty-eight gauge hammer gun given to me by my maternal grandfather when I was about fifteen years old. I longed for one of those twelve gauge semi-autos like my father and uncle used. As I grew older, I shopped the bookstores for gun and dog magazines. I saw a magazine that looked much different than the other publications on the racks. That magazine was the Double Gun Journal. I read that magazine and was slightly interested in the content regarding those old doubles as I had one that had been relegated to the case after I procured one of my long sought semi-autos. I looked for the DGJ when I returned to the bookstores but never saw another one. Somewhere along the line I saw an ad for that magazine and subscribed. Looking at my collection, I find my first complete year was 1992. I am missing some issues throughout my collection, probably due to my spouse thinking they were just clutter. I always enjoyed my brief conversations with Heidi when I called to renew or order their product. Because of this magazine I was led to the PGCA. Yesterday, I received the DGJ Index and reader III. I have yet to open the wrapper, I am unsure when I will, but I look at that Index and reminisce about my journey with this magazine that led me here. A fitting finale to this fine publication. Thank you to the Cote's for your labor of love.

William, you can still order those missing issues from the Cotes.





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My Index and Reader III arrived today!! I had a stack of 10 books that I was almost done plowing through so now I have my next book to devour!! Thanks Daniel and Joanna for what you have done for the double-gun world over the years. :clap:

There were plenty of posts over the past two years on the long awaited Index and Reader but curiously I haven’t seen much here over the past month since folks received their copy. So …… what is your feedback on its presentation and content? Any particular articles of historic or technical interest to Parker enthusiasts?

Looks like a quality bound book. It’s almost as thick as I&R I & II combined. I haven’t taken the plastic seal off of mine yet. 3 1/2 more books to read before I get into I&R III. Something to look forward to.

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Got mine about two weeks ago, nice book, thanks to the authors.

Ron