Saving to Buy A Parker
 

My buddy up the hollow has his first hay crop coming in. If there are a couple more cuttings this year and the turnips do well, he is hopeful there will be enough left to buy a decent Parker. We get few Parkers other than old beaters west of the Mississippi but every once in a while a decent one escapes the east coast.

Making a run at it too :)
 

Bruce,
I'm going to make a run at it too but it's going to take me a little longer.

Craig, maybe they will let an old Trojan escape their grasp this year and we'll get to buy a gun.

Maybe drive the pick up to that farmers auction place up in Maine and see if we can buy a cheap one.

Finding a new parker
 

I'm in Iowa and nice Parkers are rarely seen here, but I hope to get a list of the gun shows where they walk in rolled up in a blanket. I rarely seem to be in the right place at the right time, everyone says to me 'you should have been here yesterday.'

Bruce, Craig, Looks like you got a good crop of hay this year Craig I do think your method is a little slower and the bales just as hard to handle do you have a tractor with a fork? Just finished the first cutting here on the mountain last week, I only have 15 acres cleared for hay but do have some small food plots, I sowed red and white clover and orchard grass for these. Lots of turkey, doves, deer. No pheasants, sometimes a covey of quail, and a grouse once in a great while. We do find a Parker once in a while too! Gary

Maybe the bunch of us including my buddy up in the hollow can pool our money and buy a Parker.

Looking forward to seeing photos of this newly obtained Parker. Surely it will be a very nice one and especially if the turnip crop is good. I've been doing them for years but am now thinking about doing away with the lawn and maybe even the wooded areas to produce them for sale. Bruce, does your turnip farmer friend grow more than a 1/2 acre of them? And, thanks also for what you do! Bob

Maybe you boys ought to pool your money and buy PGCA raffle tickets and try to get a Parker that way. It would be a nice gun got cheap if you win. You could take turns hunting with it.

Funny you should say that... I'm buying a very nice one out of Kansas... That's west of the Mississippi, right?