DHE 28ga DT

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If you send both pieces to Dave Wolf in Texas he will stain the forend to match the butt. Problem solved.

Grandson's Parker
 

Since this thread has again been made active by Shep's spectacular repro I thought I would add to it.

My grandson has been eyeing and commenting on how much he likes my go to grouse gun - a repro 20 that I posted pictures of earlier in this thread. Selfishly, I am just not ready to pass it along so I thought I'd keep my eyes open for just the right gun. I know full well that it can take years to locate a gun with just the right specs. Well, last week it popped up for sale and I jumped on it.

A Parker repro 20 with 26" barrels choked Q1/Q2 (we are grouse hunters). Pistol grip stock with the right dimensions and double triggers. Oh, and I almost forgot it has a beavertail forearm. Add to that the fact that it is a single owner gun since new and was never fired. The wood isn't bad to look at either. A no brainer for me.

I am not a photo guy but here you go.

These are my three DHE 20s, but they aren't Repros.

26", 28", & 30"....right?

24", 28" & 30"

Ah! :D





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That thirty incher looks like it has too much drop for a guy of your stature.....

I'll gladly take it off your hands for you - make more room in your safe for a gun you can use too.





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Talking about thirty inchers . . . Wouldn't it be nice if we were to get this thread back on track before it veers off into La La Land by seeing pics of the 12-ga. Repro with 30" barrels that one of our members has reported having?

I must have missed the 30" 12 gauge, too many pages. However, my buddy has a 32" 12 that I'm waiting for. He is out of the country as we speak.

Is that unusual?

Yes Edgar, they are unusual. The owner has mentioned his set on more than one occasion in this forum, here's one of those mentions:
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15370

I hope the owner sees this request and will post pics of his complete gun, including the wood. Not only is the gun unusual, but an original Parker Reproduction 2-bbl. case capable of housing a set 30" tubes is unusual as well.

Thanks Greg. We all have seen the cyclical whims of whats the current trend, if we've been dealing with this affliction for very long. I've been actively collecting and hunting with Parkers, as well as other double guns, for over 50 years. My dad was my greatest mentor, also having the 'affliction'.
There was a time when he thought shorter barreled guns were the be all and end all. He had rows of 26" doubles, and rarely paid attention to the 30" guns, despite having a few nice ones.
He wasn't alone in his thinking and the prices of long barreled guns, back in his hay day of collecting, reflected this obsession with fast, short guns. The Churhill XXV was king in the moderately priced English market. Coincidentally, this point in the up and down cycle of barrel lengths coincided with virtually the entire manufacturing life of the Parker Reproduction. For this reason, I can easily understand why this fluke of timing resulted in so few long barreled guns.
I find there's a use, and a place for all the popular lengths, hence my trio of 20ga. DHEs. The 24" gun was all I used last year in the grouse woods, and yet I was beside myself with excitements to recently find my straight gripped 30" gun. Here's a situation a diehard Reroduction collector could benefit from a walk thru some of the better shops, as there is an ample supply of the long guns no one wanted 30 years ago.

A Repro Bill??






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What a beautiful piece of wood Larry.

Yes, a Repro.

Larry,

Did you have this re-stocked? If so, where was the work done? One of the prettiest stocks I have ever seen.

Mr. Kidd,

Yours is a very nice stock. This type grain is my favorite. Others may favor a different type, and I appreciate that, but this type is my personal favorite.

Re-stocked or not
 

This is the way I purchased this gun several years ago from the "World's Foremost Outfitter". They thought it was a reproduction gun.:bigbye:

Just received my 12 Gauge Repro back from my 'smith, after an almost 3 year wait ....

He had a 'few issues' surrounding immigration / sponsorship and personal / business problems, not to mention the finicky demands of my job - single trigger / doubling.

He successfully dealt with the doubling thing and also did a complete ( oil ) refinish of the wood, due to shrinkage of original hard finish ....his words.

Attachment 56724

Was the finish crazing Tony? (i.e., cracking)

Obliquely viewed and in favourable light, relatively significant rippling of the more expansive areas of the buttstock could be seen.

Tony, you are a VERY patient person.:corn:

Amen to that Steve

Here's one of my workhorse guns for training (28ga)

I really like the nicely streaked EW found on some of the Repros. This is one I refinished. It's an oil finish with a very thin coat of Spar Urethane rubbed in for moisture resistance.

Nice, reminds me of my 12.. Having mine refinished as well.

Ooops, it's a Fox. :eek:

XE 20, 2 barrel set

I'm still looking for a nice Parker Repro 20 bore, straight stock, splinter, 28-inch tubes, double triggers. Case and accessories optional. Nothing else please!

Back on page 12 of this thread I posted pics of a NOS Parker Reproduction replacement stock. This stock was to be a replacement for one of my consecutively numbered pair of Sporting Clays Classics -- one I shoot, the other is NIB unfired. A previous owner whacked the SSBP off to install a recoil pad of the gun I use, the pad has bothered me to the bejeezus as I wanted to bring the gun back to its original configuration. However, the color of the wood of this replacement stock turned out not a particularly good match to that gun's forend and that gun's wood was not a good match to its consecutive numbered gun. I tried to find an original Repro forend to match this stock, but to no avail. So I decided to purchase a blank from Cecil Fredi and have a new splinter forend made to compliment the replacement stock. The color and figure of the replacement stock and soon-to-be-made forend should make this consecutively numbered pair of SCCs appear the factory intended them to be a true pair.

Here's are a couple of pics of the new forend blank with that NOS replacement stock.

Nice match.

That looks like the forend blank - do you have pics of the blank for the butt stock?

Nice match!





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There is no butt stock blank Dean, only a forend blank which will soon be fashioned into a splinter forend. This new forend will be paired with the NOS replacement stock that is shown just above the forend blank in my previous post. This new forend and NOS replacement stock will replace the wood on this SCC:

Excellent match. Cecil Fredi has great wood

Greg, what are the stock dimensions on that gun? It looks like it has an unusual amount of drop for a Repro...





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Good eye, Dean. It's got a little more drop at heel and a little more cast off than usually encountered. It measures 1 3/8" x 2 1/2" x 14 5/8" x 1/4" cast off. I suspect a previous owner wanted it to be to his liking by having it bent, installing a Pachmayr Decelerator SC pad and having an oil finish applied. Then in turn I wanted it to suit me by switching to a Silver's pad, having mullered borders added, rebluing the barrels, re-casecoloring the action and finally by refinishing the wood with Timberluxe after being caught in a steady downpour during the 2016 Great Northern.

Ahhhh . . . the life of a gun . . . and the changes they sometimes have to endure.

Greg, who did the colors for you?

Shame you weren't able to find a suitable FE, Greg.

Do you intend to serialize the new lumber to your gun? Seems to me an inscribed indication of some sort showing it was made for the gun along with the date it was done along with the guns s/n would make serialization totally legit. All under the tang/iron of course.

They were done by John Gillette at Classic Guns LTD.
http://www.classicgunsinc.com/

Yeah, I would have preferred an original forend, but it just wasn't happening after many months of searching. I will be the first to admit that I do not possess the patience of Job, it was either continue dusting off the replacement stock, selling it, or having a new forend made. I chose the latter. Besides, it's fun to have a project going!

The replacement stock is stamped with the number "30" -- no explanation as to why, it just is. If I were to serialize it to the gun as well as date it, do you really think it would add any value?

Probably wouldn't add value but would maintain value.





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