January 2010 Parker of the Month...
 

Here we go again!!!! It's time for the submitting pictures for the January 2010 Parker of the Month - all who are registered to the Parker Forums are encouraged to participate in the "November Parker of the Month" contest! Until later this month (December, if my calendar is correct ;) ), please post your pictures in this thread (and only this thread!). I will close this thread on or about December 25th - and post a new POLL so folks can vote on their favorite "Parker of the Month". At the end of the poll - the winning picture will be shown here:

http://parkerguns.org and be reserved for the month of January 2010 when (if??) we do a Parker Calendar.

The Ground rules are simple.....

Please post up to FIVE of YOUR (sorry - they MUST BE YOUR PHOTOS!) pictures in this thread.

We encourage you to enter even if you only have one photo that you like, as folks will be looking for "that Parker Quailty" that defines "Why we do this", so that one photo could be a winning photo. Those my be of a Parker, hunting scene with a Parker, still-life or even an action shot.

Members may comment on the photo entries in the photo contest thread and leave nice comments about other images in the thread if you feel the urge to do so. BUT - please do not post any photos in this thread that are not intended to be entries. Pictures NOT posted as entries will be deleted from the thread.....

Editing rule: Altered Images—Photographs manipulated for artistic purposes by applying digital and/or traditional special effects (i.e. hand coloring, toning, bleaching, collage and photo composites, etc.) are accepted. In short - "show us what you got" - BUT - the Parker Shotgun must remain "as is" (sorry, you can't make your Trojan an "A-1" with photoshop, if you know what I mean )

Occasionally, some member(s) or organization(s) may donate prizes for the monthly contest. These will be announced in the appropriate month's thread (as above). If you know a business that would like to participate - please have them contact me directly.

All votes and prize winners will be final - SO WAIT UNTIL THE VOTING THREAD to "express your opinion "I'll vote for that" ""

By entering, participants grant permission for their winning photos to be used as an main photo on the PGCA Website, Calendar (with attribution - of course) and maybe other areas of the PGCA site....

Good luck and let's have some fun with this..!

That is all...

John

Dunkle, 20gaDHE24" and Head Shot
 

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28" barreled Trojan 20 gauge still at work.....

28 gauge Reproduction gets the job done.

Duck Hunting with snow shoes
 

Here is a winter hunt. Also a double.

Jeff,That is a great shot!

A New Brunswick bird

OK So we need winter pictures...Right?

Here is another winter picture.

Snipe from last weekend.

Doves from last winter...our winters are nice..

Hunting without Dunkle:duck:

December Black, craw full of acorns.

I shot a Woodie a while back that had 17 acorns from the back of his throat to his gullet. Can anyone hazzard a guess on how much food is that ? - a day, a week, 6 hours?

That sounds like it would get a small deer threw the morning.

It would last him the day in the winter, maybe less. He would have been foraging again before his crop was empty. In the coastal Northeast those blacks will feed on baby mussels and tiny snails too when the tide permits it.

Repro and his Grandaddy
 

This month I'm trying one with no dead birds... shown below are a 1907 DHE 1-1/2 Frame 12 ga and a circa 1987 DHE 1-1/2 frame 12 ga Parker Reproduction. The calls are of roughly the same relative vintages. One is a "Fuller's Goose Call" made in about 1907 by David Fuller oddly enough. The other is unmarked, I bought it from Dunn's in about 1987 it is louder than a semi truck horn.

My little Parker
 

Here is a picture of Parker on point in Kansas:D:

Scott and Bill Oct. NH Phez

Picture of hammer may not qualify.

Ohio Jake & 12 gauge DH

I love the hammer Dean.....

Harry, I took the picture almost a year ago. Here's another shot but I prefer the one with TPS beneath the hammer.

Dean,
Is there a Parker parts of the month contest ?:duck:
Nice hammer but what about the rest of the gun???

The rest of the gun is pretty decent. It's just one of my 16 0-frame T/A guns.

Dean, My dad's turkry gun of choice: GH 20 ga 32" full/full. He always gets his 2 gobblers before me and kills them just as dead as i do with my 10. just goes to show you, age and experience will always beat youth and energy.

I've taken a bunch with the 12 ga. and I'm getting older so this year I'll be using a 28 ga.

During deer season in my new natural ground blind I had nine longbeards within 7 yards of me. Should be easy work with a 28 ga. and 7 1/2 shot . . . we'll see . . .

Your allowed two birds in Mass. also Dean? We have to use #6 shot min. up to #4 no larger.

I shoot Vermont almost exclusively. Two bearded birds allowed in spring and one of either sex in fall. Shot size restriction is size 2 - 8 with no gauge restriction.

Trying to sneak in here before thread ends. Lots of snow and a good hunt two days ago. I admit the hammer gun is a prop, as some of you will know its condition.

My mixed breed pup "Charlie" is becoming a good gun dog. I have taken her a few times to work with a great dog, "Rio". When with "Rio", she works hard and well. When we are alone, she still occasionally breaks and runs if the rooster runs. A flush at 200 yards is not too helpful but I live with it. The third bird in the bag was one of those memorable moments between man and dog. Our day was coming to a close and we were just the two of us and had just experienced a 200 yard flush (first break of the day). When I got up there, I told "Charlie" that we should stay a little closer to each other as I'm getting too old to try to keep up, especially since the snow was getting deeper and deeper as our day progressed. We had picked up two birds with "Rio" and "Charlie" doing tag team work, so the day would end well regardless. We were about a mile from the car and had to walk along a fence line between two fields to get there. The fence is page wire with two strands of barbed wire on top. As "Charlie" worked along the fence, she became birdy and wanted very much to get through the page wire. I took her to an opening about 100 yards down the line and let her work back. I stayed on the opposite side, in the event a "retrieve" was needed on the side without "Charlie". When she got back to where she wanted to be, she spent about ten seconds and flushed a very nice rooster. Folded that one and she made her version of retrieve; which is to run over, pick it up, look at me as if to say okay here it is if you want it, drop it where it fell and then carry on hunting. We will work on that. With some trepidation, I made a valiant attempt to get over the fence and have all my parts intact. Parts - okay, pants, well a needle and thread will repair or maybe a guy could get a new pair of hunting pants for Christmas. All in all a good day with good eating to come - Christmas eve lemon pheasant being one meal about to start.

Merry Christmas one and all
Jack


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D grade 10 ga Parker 1883
 

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G grade 1882 Parker
 

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My results with 16 gauge VH O frame
 

Bang Bang

AHE 12ga

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Winter South Georgia doves.
 

1 short of a 15 bird limit. 8 with 1901 GH damascus and 6 with 1875 underlifter.