12g Upland Game Gun
 

I've been hunting with a Parker again this year. It's a nice little 12ga, GHE, with 26" open choked barrels. The gun weighs in at 6 lbs. 10 oz.
To me it seems like the the perfect grouse gun. I often wonder if it was ordered to be a grouse gun, it seems at home in the Pennsylvania woods. There is no information about it in the Parker records, so I guess I'll have to keep wondering.
Dave

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Looks like a good upland gun to me. If the records show the location to which it was originally shipped, you can about guess what it was used for. I have a GH shipped to Virginia Beach that was most certainly used as waterfowl gun

I agree. It also looks very successfull to me.

looks like a nice grouse gun to me:)

Hmmm, a 6 lb 10 oz straight grip 12 gauge? What's not to like?

looks like a grouse gun at the moment for sure..i like those 26 inch barrels...charlie

Those open chokes, if ordered that way from the factory, I would say were intended for two uses - depending on where the gun was shipped: grouse/woodcock if up north or quail if down south. Great looking little gun.

That's a late 1/2 frame gun isn't it Dave?

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Thanks for the complements. It is a half frame gun made in 1940. The chokes are .005/.010. I checked out the Griffon & Howe serial # list last evening and found the gun listed. I'll be sending for a letter on Monday.
Dave

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Never mind it's original use. It is definitely a grouse/woodcock gun now. Your buddy seems to approve as well. Nice!

Please share what you find out about your gun's provenance with us.
Bob Beach provides excellent letters and researches all that he can for the most information possible.