I am weak...very weak...
 

What can one say? It is the most colorful #3 frame 12 gauge 32" DH I have ever seen. Like a magpie, I am attracted to shiney objects and tend to take them back to my nest...:shock: This gun in the 119,000 range finds itself on one of a very interesting couple of pages of The Book. 7 columns of Parkers and virtually all of them are Grade 3, 4 and above. Nary a proletarian Parker among them. It must have been a very busy month for the engravers

Nice one !!!!

I think we'd all be weak if we had a chance to buy that gun !

Don, please bring that one to the Vintager's so we can put our fingerprints on it.

What a beautiful DH !

More...who ever did the colors at least got a lot of the Parker blue in there...

Don, tell us about those long triangular shadows at the brazed joint on either side of the lug?

I noticed them too. I don't know. We'll have to give them a good look when I get the gun in hand.

Beautiful gun Don! I must be a "Magpie" too, because when I saw it, I wanted to take it back to my nest! :)

Don........

Do you know who refinished the barrels?

No, I don't.

Those shadows look to me like just shadows. A photographic effect, nothing else. David

Very nice fowling piece Don....looks like a dandy !!

Don I must be a MN maggpie as I brought a 32 in. D grade 3 frame to the nest. Heavy frame and thick chambers make those long barrels swing nice.138033 was ordered by Farwell Ozman and Kirk Company in St Paul And shipped Oct 10th 1906 to H.M. Bird in Red Wing MN.some ones new duck gun.Has anyone heard of the dealers before? Pete K.

Pete;

I did not know you hunted elephant, why else have such a shootin iron.

Good phesant hunting this fall.

PTG Roger

The lines Dean mentions are merely polished areas of the flats after browning- neither ridges nor shadows. The gun seems pretty nice though (thankfully) not nearly so shiney as the photos portend. The bores are .730/.732 and the chokes are .036/.042. The D3 barrels have .160/.164 barrel wall thicknesses over the end of the 2 3/4" measured chambers. 32" long on the nose. The gun weighs 8lb 9oz. Nice cosmetic restoration except for incorrect finishes on the triggers and safety button (both niter blued-should be bright nickel plated and case colored respectively)

Don May I ask if you passed on this gun ? I thought they took it off their sight and I see it listed again. Thanks Steve

The gun is sitting in my gunroom at the moment. I am still in my "inspection period"...but the gun is still on the Cabela's website...

Thanks Don

Sounds like a great shooter Don.

Actually, Dean, after consultation with Mr. B, I shipped it back to Texas this morning. The tangs were just too low for one of my re-stocks and I didn't feel like having them bent up. The fore end was a bit loose to but this was a minor issue. Another "resource allocation" decision"... It's a nicely restored gun if you can live with the drop and repaired wrist. It does have a damned fine set of barrels. BTW, Mr. B opines the case colors look like those from the old Heinzelman firm of Carlstadt, NJ. (lots of "original" Foxes went through there)

Pete, it's Farwell, Ozum, Kirk, and, yes, they are a well known source of Parkers and other guns of the period.

Don, did you happen to measure the drop on that gun? From the pic on Cabela's website it looks helacious--like 3"...maybe more?

Yes, of course, I did. 3 1/2" D@H. They had told me this on my intial inquiry along with describing the well repaired crack across the wrist. I had intended to restock it from the get go so these thing were immaterial to me but the tangs proved a bit lower than the usual 3" drop Parker.