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I had a nice GHE skeet gun from Hershal, sold it on here a few years ago

Hershel was the first of the real Parker dealers. We became friends many years ago, I believe in 1968 or close He and Betty would come to the Las Vegas show and we would talk way too much.Herschel had more A1 Specials over the years than anyone "possibly Jimmy Austin had" Boy was that along time ago. I remember a A 1 special for $3,750.00 and no one I knew had that kind of money for a gun! He was always in Guns America when it was the shotgun paper!

I remember Jim Austin at Kittery Point in Maine. I met him just once just before the pot boiled over.





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W.O. Rowley was dealing Parkers in Dallas well before Herchel. Sold the A1-Special 28-gauge two-barrel set to Clem Buckman in California for $3000.

Jimmy Austin's wormy cherry paneled barn at Kittery Point was a favorite shop of mine for looks, and for some time David Trevillion had his workshop there. I bought my No. 2 NID 28-gauge from Jim. A year or two later I was at the Syracuse show and he had a big display there. Invited me to sit with him and share a libation and his big ice chest full of ice and shrimp. Treated me like his long-lost friend from the old country! Always wondered if he had me confused with someone with money!

I was only at Jim's shop one time, but he wasn't there. I shot geese with him and Terry Smith on the Eastern Shore. I remember us taking a Mag Ten Ithaca apart in front of our blind when it malfunctioned. As we were outside the blind with a disassembled gun, a flight of geese started to pitch into the decoys. We ran for our guns and, as I recall, one of us took a desperation shot and killed one goose. Jim kept us entertained with a variety of stories about just about everything.