A Fine Collectors Day in Western NY
 

We had our 3rd Annual Collectors Day at our duck club in western NY. This year we had a fantastic array of guns, 5 stand shooting and a delicious steak dinner.
We keep adding to the group as fellow collectors become known by way of the collector forums. Just a few pictures of some of the Parkers on view.

I'm loving that display of the Remington and Parker Trap Guns along with the Trap Gun pages of the 1939 Remington - DuPont Trap & Skeet Equipment catalogue.

Nice bunch of guns Craig! Hopefully if the rain hold off tomorrow we will have a good afternoon here on the rolling plains at our church's steak and shoot!

Nice duck club gun!!

nice collection of fowling pieces.

Love the duck club gun!!

nice bunch of guns at your duck club bet a some of them guns were real duck getters back in their day...any 8 ga s there....charlie

In addition to those lovely Parker's that Craig posted pictures of, some other nice doubles managed to sneak in the back door: Dan Lefever's, Ithaca's, Fox's, a J. P. Sauer, I think I seen a nice L. C. Smith and some English doubles. And on the 5 stand, a Browning A5 was being shot by a well known PGCA member. He shot it quite well I should add. A couple nice O/U's were shot also.

And no Charlie, no 8 bores.

The food and graciousness of the Vanderbilt Marsh Club was fantastic.

Few more pictures.

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My invitation must have been lost in the mail.....

Was this show advertised anywhere?

Those are some fine guns on display there.






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Sorry Dean you must be a card carrying western NY appleknocker to gain entrance. :rolleyes: Seriously we are limited on the number of folks we can accommodate so we keep it local.

'bout the only clubs in my area are spandex-wearing, ball crunching bicycle riders dressed like Lance Armstrong at a Pharmaceutical convention.

I kind of figured that Craig - just bustin' 'em.
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That was a Remington model 11 B grade that I was shooting Bill.

But... Close enough.

Thanks again for the invite Craig. A great time!

What? Not a hammer gun to be found! Was there no hammer guns brought that day? come on down here and I can loan you one, seriously looks like a great time had by all, but like all the events that I have been to lately, every one is grey headed, we have to concentrate on bring young folks into the fold, Gary

There was 2 or 3 Parker hammer guns on display. One of them i provided. A grade 2 lifter 12g. Another was a C grade bernard top action.

oh there were a couple hammer guns- i forgot my camera, so no pictures to share-

the drool factor was high

Drool

The Model 31 is a B grade two barrel Skeet/Trap with fantastic wood, the 32 belonged to a Dr. W.J. Schoverling,he was a big wheel at The University of Texas School of Dentistry. The VHE is one of 18 Trap guns. The C single was listed as an unfinished gun in December 1942. I believe it was finished in the 50's it is mint with the hang tags.
I would like to thank Craig and the Vanderbilt Marsh Club for a wonderful day!