What kind of ugly on a Parker do you hate??
 

I like solid Parkers that show honest hunting wear. What drives me nuts are ugly damascus barrels. I have no issue with properly restored damascus barrels. How about you??

I much prefer a D4 pattern over Bernard.

ugly? I have a project PH that has gold gilding on part of the fore-end metal

worse yet is that the fore-end is not serial numbered to the gun- so no telling how bad the whole gun it came from would have looked pimp'ed up

I can stand a lot of ugly on a hunting gun as long as it shoots where I point it. Guns who reside in the safe and are show and tell peices better look good and not embarass me. Since I do much of my own work I probably don"t wait as long as most to address an iissue. Finally, I once saw an american double that had the wood refiniished and the receiver recased, the work was high quality, however, the damascus barrels were left with there original finish. In my opinion the gun deserved a place in the back of the gun safe where I didn't have to look at it.

My all time favorite is the Dremel-pencilled SSN diagonally across the floorplate, especially on smallbores!

I once had a CHE 12ga 30" barreled gun that someone had used a torch to color the receiver. It wasn't too bad looking actually. What made me sell the gun was a large duck flying across the bottom of the floorplate with a big silly smile on it's beak. It's head was angled slightly enough that it looked like the duck was glancing back and laughing at me after I had missed the shot. I quickly grew tired of the humiliation and sold it. :cuss:

Effed up screws,hands down

Hot blued barrels.

Definitely bad screws. Honest wear and tear don't bother me in the least, but bad screws and scars from grandpa's Stanly screwdrivers make me cringe.

Non-original beavertails. :shock:

White line pads…

I hate all guns that have been over sanded and poorly poorly re checkered.

Hot blued recievers.

They're OK if your father put one on the stock of the Parker he bought from a local farmer in the 1950s, so it would fit him; and of the four Parkers he owned it was his go-to game-getter -- possibly because of that unorthodox alteration.


Heritage!

Russell, your gun sounds like a treasure. Beauty is as beauty was, and it was a beauty to your father.

Guns sanded down to the point there is no checkering left.

Pachmayr pad with that ugly as sin white line spacer! They're OK for a rifle, but they scream "below average trap shooter" to me. I'm fine with replacement pads that are not period correct, but that white line jumps out and grabs my eyeballs and will not let go. That's the first thing I do on a "new" Parker if it has one. Otherwise, I can tolerate a lot in a solid gun that breaks clays and kills birds.

Buggered-up screws, pads on a small-bore, pads in general...

CUT BARRELS…:shock:





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What is your go to pad when correcting this problem?

My list in no particular order.

Awful replacement wood that's poorly fit.

Poorly executed split head repairs.

Grade-3 & higher guns with the skeleton butt cut-off for a butt ugly pad installation unless documented it was ordered with a pad.

Any metal refinishing where it's obvious the polishing was done on a buffing wheel. I.E. rounded edges, removed or over buffed lettering or engraving etc.

Loose ribs or ones that some Bodger attempted to fix with some type of gum-pucky from the local hardware store.

Guns with so much drop at heel that they make the gun look like a banana.

Buggered screws.

Poorly done re-case hardening resulting in gaudy case colors.

Heavy rust & pitting.

Oil-soaked wood.

This is only a partial list, but you probably get the idea.

Then my personal subjective one is barrels over 30" in length:shock::whistle:

Most price tags :eek: ;).

Engraved animals and birds that are unrealistic.

That covers about 75% of the guns.

:rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf:

Hawkins or Silvers. Plus it’s an easy way to gain LOP.

Stocks that have the owners SS # carved in, Gary

Or barrels that have a former owner’s drivers license number scratched into beautiful “finest Damascus” barrels…





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The fifties and sixties phenomenon of scratching out "Damascus Steel" on the rib and replacing it with a roughly stamped "TiTanIc Steel" and bluing over the Damascus finish. As Elmer Keith would say, "I was there." Where are all those guns now? There used to be five of them at every small town show.

Hot bluing and honed barrels

my face engraved on the frame.

Raised ribs

Dave, if you have never crushed clays with a Parker raised rib live bird gun, you're missing out on much awesomeness!! :rotf:

Paul, tell us how you really feel!! :rotf::rotf: :clap:

Really badly butchered screws, non-rust blued/browned barrels, and badly installed non-period pads on higher grades that used to have a beautiful skeletal steel butt plate.

Red Dot sights.