Parker Pages Arrived
 

My Parker Pages came today! What a great issue and a tribute to Dean Romig’s tenure as our editor. It’s been said a million times but can’t be said enough: Thank you Dean for all your work and sacrifice in the toughest job in the PGCA. Thanks to Kathy for being your support and biggest fan!

Mine arrived yesterday. I made it up to and through Garry Gordons excellent article before my eyes got heavy. Excellent work by all. I will finish the remaining articles this evening. Garry I got a real chuckle out of your comment on missing the straight away bird, "I am not unfamiliar with missing easy shots". :rotf:

Randy, I'm glad my poor shooting could brighten your day.:) My wife says people are always laughing at me...hmmm(?) She would also say that my comments about missing birds is a great example of understatement. Ouch, the truth hurts sometimes.

I am also enjoying the articles from this issue which was waiting for me after a day-long trek following the dogs after birds (with a Parker!), and want to add my compliments to Dean for his good work...and to the other contributors. I learn something from each issue. I know the editorship position cannot be an easy one, and Dean was very supportive and accommodating to me in my struggles to get him appropriately sized photos. (Thanks, Dean!!)

I'm going to be very jealous if Craig Larter figures out a way to take those 4 10 gauges to heaven with him. From the pictures it looks like the guns need nothing. Enjoyed the reading of your article Craig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this parker pages is awsome as always...no where in the world is a magazine near as good as this one...charlie

Thank you, Dean, for all your great work.

Great issue, enjoyed all the articles, especially the bird hunting Garry! And I will echo what you said, if you are in the South bird hunting = bobwhite quail!

Craig, I'm pretty sure the good Mr. Larter is already in heaven to be hunting with those big beauties of his. Wonderful guns...and wonderful writing about them.

Still searching for a GH 10ga and a BH 10ga to complete my 5 gun straight, very few BH's made and few have ever come to market. As we all say the hunt is half the fun. Craig

Garry, in reality, I am just glad Craig shares his acquisitions with all of us.

Garry,

A nice article on your 20 gauge Parker. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with the ability to miss seemingly simple shots! My 20 gauge DHE was also ordered by a gentlemen from Kentucky (J.B. Gatliff of Williamsburg). Interestingly it was ordered by Bourne and Bond out of Louisville in 1916. The dimensions are close to your gun and the chokes were ordered as RH 40% LH 60%.

Ken

Wow, Ken, your 20 sounds like perfection for a bird hunter. Interesting similarities to my 1918 version. Those Kentucky gents knew how to spec a bird gun.

As for the missing of simple shots, well, what can I say? I'm just glad I excel at something. :whistle: The only time I shoot worse is when I see the bird on the ground in front of the point.:crying: I'm just doing my part for conservation.

Picked mine up today at the PO might have arrived yesterday as I didn’t check the mail ! Very nice in it’s entirety!! But I especially liked the three 10 gauge articles , but that’s just me :cool:

I love the cover photo!

Rick, I'll pass on your comment to my wife, Elaine, who took the photo. She's the best hunting companion I've every had.

My compliments to the photographer! It’s a great photo.....if it had Pointers in it! I jest but it really is a great photo, I saw it through the plastic in the mailbox and was like whoa! Anyone with dogs has been in that moment and it was captured very nicely! Best of luck and hope to see more!

I have always chosen the cover photo after much careful consideration, taking in all aspects of what each picture portrays to me and I hope to our readers.
It has often been difficult to decide, even among some pictures that weren’t sent by authors but that spoke to a season or type of shooting. But very very few just reach out and grab me... This one did though. It was so easy to choose because it spoke to me of memories of my own hunting. Memories of success early on a frosty morning.... well, I don’t want to repeat what I wrote in “The Cover” on page 3. Thanks Garry and thanks to Elaine as well!





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Dean and Garry,

I'm just glad to see Gordon setters on the front cover! Not many people hunting with them anymore and they are a "throwback" to previous times.

Ken

TY Dean. Fantastic!