I hunted my whole life with doubles, the cheap ones. I wanted a old one - bought a 1889 Remington which I proceeded to blow up [ loaded PB thinking it was Pyrodex - 94grs - 22,000psi ]. The week before I was looking at a Parker hammer gun. I drove two hours to buy it. I still have it and shoot it very well. It only cost me $750 and that was about 12 years ago. It has laminate barrels and I had Bachelder redo them. It has a very interesting pattern. The scar on my arm [ 23 stiches ] is a reminder to always double check what powder I'm using.

my dad traded for a 28 ga rem. model 1148 about half way down the barrel inside the barrel there was what looked like a rusted out ring...i took it squirl hunting and that thing blowed up shooting at a squirl...it blew up exactly where that ring was just beyound the fore arm i was not hurt.....charlie

I am a Fox guy but I hang around with a bunch of Parker guys so their influence tipped me over about 7 years ago. My first was a CHE Bernard 12ga that I hunted but sold to a member. Now i own 9 and I am not stopping.��

The first Parker Bros. double I was cognizant of was my Grandfather's 1890 vintage heavy PH-Grade 12-gauge, but that has flowed down through my Father's next older brother's family. While I was growing up, my Father shot three Remingtons, a pair of AE-Grade doubles in 12- and 16-gauge for upland work and a "Sportsman" 12-gauge for waterfowl. In 1959, Dad caved in to Jack O'Connor's short barrel writings and had the "Sportsman's" 30-inch full choke barrel whacked to 26-inch with a Poly-Choke!! By the 1960 season, the "Sportsman" was gone and he had a 2-frame 30-inch barrel VH-Grade for his waterfowl work. I still have that gun. Being primarily an Ansley H. Fox guy, the first Parker Bros. double I bought myself was this rather nice condition 1894-vintage NH-Grade in May 1996.

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I had posted on the Shotgunworld message boards a couple of years ago that I wanted to buy a Parker.. Greg Baehman PM'd me with an awesome looking GH at an extremely fair price. He aslo told me about the PGCA and recommended I join.

My Dad hunted upland birds avidly with Parkers and he had several when he passed. I used them many times when I was younger but purchased an old Browning Lightning 20 ga for upland bird hunting when I branched out on my own. My Dad and I still hunted together and occasionally when I couldn't hit anything with the Browning, he would have me try one of the Parkers to get me straightened out.

I ended up with two of his GHs after his passing in 2014, both 12 ga. One was my Grandfather's that passed to my Great Uncle when my Grandfather passed, and then to my father when my Great Uncle passed. The other was a project gun that my father started to resurrect.

My Great Uncle shot a pheasant with the first Parker in 1918 that he had mounted and I have the gun and the pheasant now. I've since finished the second Parker, the project gun, which has become my preferred grouse, woodcock and pheasant gun.

Great story!

Dad gave me a GHE 12ga when I was maybe 14. He had put it away in a leg o mutton case years before.
He shot his Simson 20-- I the Parker.
Still have them both.
I believe he bought the Parker in 29 or 30
Have a picture dated 1931 with him holding it

My first Parker was a vh 16 that was my grandfather's and then passed to my father. I grew up with this 16 vh as well as a German double 16 Schmidt & Habermann. The 16 Parker though has a unique history. At the height of the depression, my grandfather bought a farm in Hooksett or Bow New Hampshire. While shooting field hand trap on the farm with his four sons, the gun's recoil caused his thumb to strike his nose. He went home with a headache and died the following day of a cerebral hemorrhage. Instead of getting a nose bleed, he bleed inward. I had DelGrego restore this vh and it remains a cherished Parker to this day.

Allen - he probably needed a longer LOP than that gun had.





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