She's back at a reduced price..http://www.gunsinternational.com/PAR...n_id=100185556

Boy, that is a very nice looking honest DHE at a great price IMHO

George

Ditto!!

I really want to like this gun and I am trying hard but...the engraving on the left side of the receiver. Isn't it supposed to be a pointer? I swear it looks like Lassie hobbling her way back to Timmy. May be it's just me but that may be the single ugliest engraving job I have ever seen.

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...185556-2-L.jpg

Jay, your'e right. Look at the funky front legs.

Seriously, WTF? How much was Remington getting for D-grades at the time? I have seen better engraving done with a pocket knife on the side of a Coke machine. How about we start a thread dedicated to bad Parker engraving.

We may never learn why a journeyman or apprentice engraver was given the harder task of engraving the dogs and birds. Scrollwork is generally easier to execute than trying to impart 'life' into a dog or bird, but they had to start somewhere and at least it was on the lowest of the graded guns. The chief engraver took on the task of the higher grade's elaborate decorations.
The quail on the floorplate resemble the work of Runge but more probably the engraver copied Runge's quail better than he did the dogs.

Now Jay your really dating yourself with that comment.:)

Of course with this crowd I'll bet 95% of us know exactly who Lassie and Timmy are.

Look at it this way, the poor dog is tuckered out after a long day of pointing Grouse and Woodcock that his master missed. He has worked his ass off covering miles of thick cover in the unrelenting heat of a late September day. All he has to look forward to is a bowl of dry dog food and hopefully a rug to lie down on.