Winter 2025 Parker Pages
 

Got my Parker Pages Saturday, November 22. Thanks, Mike and Sam. This is a good one, starting with the Jeff Kuss paper collection on the cover. The "road map" on page 3 was a nice touch. The #19 may be an 1882 catalog, not 1822. Great picture of a great collection. John Davis's article about ATA All Americans was a good one too, since "He are one". What a guy. Mills Morrison's tribute to our friend Charlie Cleveland was on time. His rare 1950 Ford Crown Victoria is a clue to his real interests other than shotguns. Thanks to Mills, we know what Charlie looked like. Was anyone surprised?

Thanks Bill. 👍🏻

Bill, we’ve seen Charlie Cleveland before and have heard from him before.

I published an article of Charlie and his sweet wife Bessie going out to Kansas to share a hunt with another old time PGCA member. I sent it to Village Press, our publisher with all of Charlie’s language and colloquialisms and the layout artist Brandon Hoffman, sent me a final proof before publishing where Brandon had corrected everything with proper English…
I was outraged and let Brandon know that he had transgressed - I wanted it published in Charlie’s own words… Brandon put it back to the way it should have been… the way I wanted it.

That horrible 8 gauge TA cobbled and scabbed up gun of Charlies was in my possession before it was in Mills’ possesion… I never had the desire to fire it…





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Mike Franzen also did a very nice article some time back. I think they did some turkey hunting if I recall correctly.

My PP came yesterday , supposed to rain all day, so will read it cover to cover.

I particularly enjoyed the article on Charlie Cleveland. I never met him but it reminds me of a friend I don’t see often enough. Thank you.

It's a very nice issue and Mills did a fantastic job with his tribute to Charlie Cleveland. I always got a chuckle from Charlie's pattern testing which consisted of how many pellets hit an empty Dr. Pepper can at a given range.

Dean and Mike, I didn't mean to imply that I hadn't "seen" Charlie, but I would guess that many of our readers and members had not had a visual of Charlie in the past. Thanks again, Mills, for helping us along. How about that '38 Chevrolet.

Photos in my article of Charlie courtesy of Julia Woods. Mike Franzen’s better half

Thanks for the kind words. I miss Charlie and am sorry I never met him in person

I forgot to mention the Dr Pepper cans. I actually used some for pattern testing once.

The issue was well done and had a historical bent overall that I am enjoying

A BIG SHOUT OUT to Mike K and Sam for a great edition!! Mike, I really appreciate the time and expense you expended develeping 8ga loads with many powders avaliable currently. We need to keep the big 8 alive!! If you own a 8ga please consider joining our group of 8ga shooter with events now at the Southern, Hausmann's and Rock Mountain. You will never have so much fun. If you own a Parker 8 and need ammo to shoot one of these events contact me by PM, I may be able to help out.

Loved the last Parker Pages especially the story on my fellow Mississippian ,Charlie Cleveland.Dean Romig's story about Charlie earlier in this thread was great.Charlie's unique way of expression and compliment contributed so much to the forum .Thank you for the Parker Pages article.

Charlie Cleveland was, as they say, the salt of the earth.

Long live his memory.





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