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VH 20 Revival
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This VH 20 was in sad shape when I acquired it several years ago. The stock was shot and the metal was rusted and scratched. It is now fully restored and looks brand new. Brian Dudley did most of the work and coordinated the rest. Geoffrey Gournet recut the engraving and Doug Turnbull did the case coloring.
New case from Jeff's Outfitters. What you don't see is the barrels are 28" and IC/M. It is among the lighter of my Parker 20's and handles like a dream. We broke it in on clays this weekend and will get it on real birds soon enough. |
Nice gun Mills. I saw it at the Vintagers and was quite impressed. Really nice looking wood.
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Nice work as always, i hope you and your sons have many years of great memories from it.
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Thanks for posting about the gun Mills. It did turn out nice and is quite a before and after for sure.
This is the gun that I featured in this post about the details of stocking a Parker. http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24745 Here are a few additional finished photos of the gun. Turnbull's shop always does a great job on coloring Parkers for me, but this one was right up there as one of the best ones I have gotten out of them. Attachment 76757 Attachment 76758 Attachment 76759 Attachment 76760 Attachment 76761 Attachment 76762 |
Thanks for the comments and thanks for the additional photos Brian. The wood is such that it both looks great and still looks appropriate for the grade.
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I like your style Mills.
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great looking gun mills...that brian does have a way with guns dont he....your son will get to break this gun in shortly....charlie
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This was supposed to be for my son but he might have to wait awhile
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Beautiful. I would cry if it were mine and I put a scratch on it.
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No kidding. I am sure a scratch is coming
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I have a couple of youngsters I want to give a Parker to, but until they learn how to treat them not in the way they treat the guns they hunt with, they won't get them. I should give them a beater I guess but I wanted to do better than that. Every time they come they have forgotten their gun case, throw it into the back of the truck like it is a garden hoe, and don't ever oil or clean them.
Your VH is a presentation piece now. |
Harry has expressed interest in my 870 20 that got me started and we may begin there. Actually he really likes rifles now and it may mean we buy a few more rifles.
Maybe I will keep buying until I find one he can keep |
To pretty to hunt with Mills. Put it in the gun safe! Ha.
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Jerry,
My nephew is to inherit my fathers 20 Trojan. The SXS he shoots appears to have never been cleaned and it is a rattle trap. I offered to fix that, but was declined. I am seriously rethinking my will. The truth is the grandchildren have completely different taste in rifles and shotguns. I have thought of selling the lot and keeping just the ones I have been shooting of late. Harry |
I would give my Parkers to a friend who appreciated them long before I gave them to a family member who did not
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Kinda takes you back in time , that feeling of waiting for your brand new Parker to arrived after your dealer ordered it for you. Looks perfect ! Now go out and make some memories with it.
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Someone was asking about Brian's work recently, so I am reviving this thread. It also reminds me I need to take this gun out for quail in the near future.
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I too am rethinking about whom I give my guns some of my grand children do not care about hunting so I guess they will inherit some thing besides a parker...charlie
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Does Harry still want to shoot elephants?
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He does. He'd be satisfied with just about any game animal in Africa though
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Do you have any stories to tell about this guns use?
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Check out Parker Pages a year or so back
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Mills, if you have a gun, shoot the gun! Closet queens are useless. As they say on "Swamp People"- "Choot 'em!!"
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If anyone knows swamp people it’s Mike
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I don’t buy a gun I don’t shoot
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It’s a so many guns so little time thing
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Nice restoration. That wood might be for a Remington era VH, but the Brothers P went for a bit plainer --
Attachment 102452 Attachment 102453 This gun was virtually new, but had been left in a case and the metal had some severe cosmetic issues. My Wife bought it for me for my 55th birthday. After owning it for fifteen years, I dropped it off at Bachelders on my way home from Hausemanns. They did a nice job, except for polishing the triggers bright. Attachment 102454 |
When people are paying good money for a restock, most opt to upgrade the wood some to make it more attractive. I try to make sure that the selection is not outside of the realm of possibility for the grade.
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Brian, it’s also not unheard of for one of the stockers to grab a higher grade stick of wood for the gun he was working on.
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I shot a VH for years that had highly figured wood from the factory 1917 if I remember. One side was not as figured as the other but was not plain by any means. I also had a Gh with nice english walnut,
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There are not a few Remington era VH grade guns that sport bona fide factory GH wood, and a few GHs that will make you loosen your collar going through Meriden catalogs and auction pictures showing righteous DH factory grade wood; all a product of Remington using up the considerable inventory of Meriden wood gleaned at the 1934 buyout. So it definitely pays to know what you are looking at era and style-wise.
Years ago I bought for pennies on the dollar a DHE 20 ga. straight grip 30 inch gun that had been stocked by Remington at Ilion in what was at least CH and arguably BH figured wood with checkered butt and SFE. Shown to 3 or 4 dealers and half a dozen "bottom feeders" at the Richmond VA gun show, no one would touch it because of the "bogus" stock (must be a restock with high grade wood) and butt (checkered instead of SKBP, standard for a DH). I sold it at the last Sandanona Vintagers years later for nearly 3 times what I paid for it and would never have done so had it not put me into a GHE .410 RK PG SFE 26" DHBP beauty. Caveat Emptor!! |
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This 1891 PH O frame 16 sports wood that is certainly much nicer than what I've seen on any other PH. It is what led me to pick it up as a project gun. And its still a project, but it did take its share of grouse and pheasant this year.
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I have personally seen many P grades with funky wood like that.
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I had a VHE 20 #241xxx sst checkered butt reversed choked that had the finest piece of feather crotch wood i have ever seen and i have seen many! Bobby
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Mills,
Not many people would spend that much to restore a VH. I commend you for giving that shotgun a new lease on life. |
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