Plesant Surprise
 

My Parker Pages arrived on the noon stage today.

I only glanced through it but it is as usual looking good.

Thanks Auistin and others;

Roger

Got me one too!! I'll be sunk down into the recliner with a single malt by my side tonight!
Looks like a great read as usual. :cheers: :D

I, too, was pleasantly surprised to receive the Parker Pages in the mail today---looks like another great effort!

But I must admit, I was more surprised to see that I was apparently credited with admission to the PGCA Doubles Club on four occasions--that would really be an olympian effort! However, I must come clean on this...I did indeed double on woodcock while shooting a 28-ga. Repro this past October, but the other 3 occasions listing me as doubling on grouse/quail was never claimed and never happened---so if you read this, I am here to say---it never happened and obviously is a misprint!

Hick;

I thoroughly enjoyed you last minute duck hunt story but you omited the after the hunt party story.

Roger

Doubles Club
 

Greg; That may have happened when the list was put in chronological order. We plan to run the list in this post upland season issue each year, and the correction will be made. If there are more errors we will run a corrected list next issue.

Thanks, Austin

Oh Greg, aren't you the modest one... :rolleyes:

I received my Parker Pages today too but I received my copy of the Julia's catalog too.... decisions - decisions...

I'll read Parker Pages tonight :D

Greg;

You must be in the dog house with Julia's or at the bottom of the food/mail chain with the US Postal service, as I have had mine for at least one week. I hope you did not mistake the mailman for a grouse at some time in the past and take a shot at him and now he is getting even.

Rog

My mailman is a shooter too and is always happy to leave my magazines and catalogs in my box.

Hey Roger--if my mailman would have snuck a peek at Page 9 of PP and noticed my name connecting on four doubles, I'm sure he would have zoomed right on by without delivering any mail fearing the worst...but luckily he didn't as he left the Julia catalog, too.

Austin: I noticed there was not a date on the pheasant double I made in So. Dakota.
It wa Novembe 12, 2009. JVB

The noon stage that dropped off Roger's PP today will not arrive on the West Coast for many days... I can't wait!

I was delighted to receive the Parker Pages Monday as well. I am puzzzled over receiving five additional PP's.

Harry

Winter Parker Pages
 

Harry; I included info from a couple of your posts and considered you a contributor. Hick a several other contibutors will also recieve the five complimentary copies.

One figure was compressed to fit into the text and is really a little small. It is attached here at more readable size. Looking at that figure leaves no doubt that Parker's standard twelve ga bore size was .750 - .760 prior to s/n 70000+/-. This makes sense as it is the same as the ID of a paper shell.

We need to do some more measurements to determine if the bore diameter changes co incident with chamber taper.

Dave Suponski has been working with an unfinished barrel, and is looking into Parker's tooling, and changes in tooling.

We also need some bore measurements of Parker competition guns. The two we had available had .740 bores like Super Fox; we need perhaps 10 more guns that have competition charactaristics to see how frequent this is.

Best, Austin

Greg,

A double on woodcock???!!! That's some impressive shooting. I hope you had a witness and joined the famous club.


DLH

Actually Destry, I would rate a double on ruffed grouse more of an accomplishment than a double on woodcock. When the woodcock flights are passing through and you hit it just right, a hunter with a good dog may experience multiple opportunities in a single day to double.

Here's my witness, Winston...you will never find a more honest fellow.

He looks like he could be bribed . . .

Yup...:biglaugh:

Tough crowd around here.

He's a beautiful dog Greg. Just foolin', no harm intended.

Dean

Austin, congratulations on another great issue of PP. Hick, great article.

No need to bribe. Look at the sadness in Winston's eyes! He wants to spill his guts, knowing they were ground seluced with a rusty A-5.:rotf:

Bummer, no Parker Pages today:envy:

The Woodcock Club started in the UK where doubles on European Woodcock are a pretty rare thing. But they extended the club over here because we have them too. If anybody has done it with two witness' then I'd suggest joining, it's a big deal in the UK at least.

http://www.shootingtimes.co.uk/woodc...cock_Club.html

I actually did it once when I was about 18 but I had not one single witness. A friend was with me but he was on down the way and only heard the shots.


Destry

Hey Rich if you got extra copies of the Parker Pages send one to me cause as of today nothing is in the mail. And I even got a Julia catalog :rotf: but no PP guess which one I would rather read:)

Aw.... thats easy the Julia's catalog.....:duck: Just kidding of course..I couldn't resist...

I believe you Destry! Heck, if we can't believe each other why would we call ourselves sportsmen.
Even if I had a witness to my only double on woodcock forty-seven years ago he'd probably be dead by now anyhow.
My only double on grouse was five or six years ago and there were no witnesses then either..... believe me? Well, I did and God was my witness. I know because I was in His country.

Watchout Dave.....:cuss:

Eric I got one in the mail yesterday for a total of 6 now. Call me if you want one and I will get it to you in the am mail.

Dave I don't read the Julia catalog I just like to look at the pretty pictures:rotf: Actually if I were well healed the A1S upgrade 20 would make for a nice bird gun.:duck: