Fox SPE Skeet & Upland 20ga.
 

1938. Checkered butt, Kausky SST, ejectors. You all know I love my Parker smallbores but this gun takes smallbores to the next level. Frame size is between a OO and an O frame. Very, very nice. About 3 doz. made.

Nice gun Daryl but you posted it on the wrong topic heading. You need to relist it on the "Guns For Sale" forum heading... and remember to put a price on it.

Huh? I posted in the right place I think- It's not for sale, I just got it.
It's up for discussion as per the heading.

Dean may have just been involved in wishful thinking Daryl

:rotf::rotf::rotf::shock:

I thought Marshfellow owned all of those!!

So IT IS up for discussion as to whether or not you should sell this gun. And I think Dean and I have decided that you SHOULD sell that gun because given your condition, you should not engage in dangerous activities like skeet shooting, never mind upland hunting. So..... what is the price? And will you deliver to Pa.?

Who knows, maybe Marshman might end up with it in the end but right now I would like to at least shoot it once the Dr. gives the thumbs up.

I appreciate your concern Georgie but I will follow orders to the T so I can meet you at Hausmann's and shoot some Foxes with you.

Daryl, I hope you are healing well and congrats on a great gun kiddo..

OH Osthaus nailed it... wishful thinking on my part Daryl.

That's a really nice on you have there Daryl. I'll bet you'll keep it for a long time after you shoot the first few rounds.

And we will shoot some Parkers and smoke some cigars. I am accumulating some local Connecticut wrappers. The wrapper comes from near Edgar's house, the filler from next to my farm.
And bring that straight grip long barreled late serial number Parker with you.

Will do. I can smell those Yankee ceegars now.

Come on!! You guys are going to be in Pennsylvania! The only thing to smoke is Scranton's finest --

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psvz10gzxy.jpg

Thanks for the memories Dave. My grandfather always had a De Nobili hanging from his mouth but he never smoked it... he just chewed on it for hours. I would love to find an image of a pack of De Nobili cigars and post it but it would take me days.

ps; Thanks again for the help over on the Fox site.

Thanks Dave
I have often seen that box but never partaken. Around my Connecticut River Valley, if I am smoking a cigar, my farmer friends want to know where the binder, wrapper and filler are from and it better be Connecticut Broadleaf, Connecticut Shade or all of the above.
We grow it and send most to the DR to be stored and rolled there.
There is a local brand- Topstone/Topper in New Haven that uses Broadleaf for all 3- wrapper/binder/filler.
I will try to find some Parodi's.

Also produced in Scranton --

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...gars&FORM=IGRE

Dave - I grew up in Delaware, and those Parodis were known as "Guinea Stinkers"

Those little Parodi's are really good at keeping the black flies and mosquito's away when I'm up on the West Branch.

Daryl- I apologize for screwing up your thread on that fine Fox (no-not your girlfriend) with all this cigar talk.
But I guarantee there will be no black flies or mosquitos around you and me on the clays course.

No problem George. They all go together- Good cigars, good whiskey, good shotguns and , last but not least, good friends.
Don't worry about the black flies or mosquitos as they will have honed in on Dean and followed him down from the north country.:)

That's good news. I'll just give him a wide berth

In my house, those Parodis, are equally effective at discouraging your wife from wanting to be anywhere near you (for better or worse)

Daryl,

Fantastic find Sir. Good to see you at lunch today.

The cigars brought back a memory; while a high school sophomore in Scranton, one of my classmates was reading the text of something to the class for discussion and he mispronounced "the devil's parody" as the well known local cigar "Parodi" [pah-rode-ee]. No one noticed except the teacher who did a funny take on it. :) Well, nowadays the student might file charges for emotional distress. :whistle:

Wow; I haven't had a Parodi since college! I always imagined I looked a lot like Clint Eastwood with one in my teeth; don't think anyone else saw it though.

Holy smokes....literally. I would have not imagined Di Nobilis came from Scranton. (Thanks Dave) They were very popular here in "East J'Utica" back inda day. Stiff competition for Mr. Eisenlohr.

Nice to see another SPE S&U come to the surface. Nice gun Daryl, congrats! This makes the 16th 20ga SPE S&U that I have logged personally during my little quest.....that makes about half of the total production number. (fwiw logged 9 16ga as well)

Darryl, just looked it up. That gun is only worth $350 in excellent condition. I'll give you $400. :cool:

Parodi's!! A blast from the past!! I enjoyed cigars for years. I must say though that I only ever smoked 1 Parodi. There was a reason for that!! Tasted like I was smoking a two week dead possum!! :eek: Don't ask how I know what a two week dead possum tastes like. It's a long story!!

Seeing as how I only paid $125, $400 sounds real good Mike.:whistle:

So, I'll have the cash at Ernie's!! Pleasure doing business!!

Mike I don't know about that possum thing. Actually the little cigars aren't bad and they're 100% tobacco. And they stay lit unlike many others. Cell pic taken out at the cabin this weekend .....

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You PA boys don't miss a trick, do you?:rotf:

Frank, I see you were enjoying an Ortleib's and a Parodi? Which one was used to kill the taste of the other?? :rotf:

Actually my friend was enjoying a Utica Club (official beer of the Fox Collectors) and I had a Widow Jane with mountain water. Doubletrouble Mike clued me in on the WJ bourbon while at the Southern and I want to thank him again. Again the Parodis are decent. :) Although I'll concede, you won't find them in Uncle M's humidor .... :nono:

We could smell them all the way up here in CT. Actually kept our bugs away.