Do you hunt with your Parker/Parkers?
 

Just curious how many hunt with their Parker guns?
I'm looking to buy my first and it will probably be a
low to mid grade with a D being the top end for me.
Definitely plan on birding with it and possibly a little
bunny hunting.

Where do you draw the line on not hunting
a Parker?

Bobby

That is all i hunt with for 99% of my hunting ( this year i shot an 1100 20 ga. on a 100 crows or so) and 100 % of my clay shooting. :)

I haven't found a line yet. This past grouse season I hunted my 1/2 frame G grade about 80 hrs. It was out in the pouring rain and blowing snow. At the end of the day it was always dried and cleaned.
Spending allot of time on this and other gun forums I've come to realize that just about anything I do to it can be fixed or refinished.
Dave

I hunt all my guns

A D grade is a great choice - gives something nice to look at when the birds aren't flying

I am not comfortable if I am not carrying one of my Parkers while hunting or shooting. Of course, I occasionally use another gun, but not often. I am not concerned with loss of value from field use.

Bobby,
I generally wait until the seasons open to hunt with mine. Both identical Parker Reproductions. I use 12 ga for ducks and geese, and a 28 ga for grouse and woodcock. I stop when the seasons close....then off to the skeet field and sporting clays courses.
Some folks enjoy collecting and admiring them, others use them for what they were intended. To each his/her own.
Best Fishes,
Steve Kleist Ely, MN

Second Steve on that. If it is rough conditions, I just use one of the rougher condition guns.

There is nothing that I may do to one of my Parkers from grades PG to AH that Brad Bachelder cannot repair. Additionally, I have insurance against loss or accidental damage.

If one is afraid of damaging their Parker while afield then they should hunt with an 870 Remington or a Mossburg. Both makers build adequate hunting guns.

I do admit that along with Parkers I often hunt with AH Fox, Lefever Arms, W&C Scott and Son, and on occasion an LC Smith. All deserve an occasional trip to the field.

I don't have a gun that I can't /won't shoot. Regardless of a guns condition or value it will see time in the field.

Pretty much anything that fly's game and clays alike I shoot with a parker. Previously I would not take out one of my "better" ones in rough weather or tuff conditions, but now I sweat it less for two reasons because I found this site.
1. As mentioned earlier there is almost nothing that can't be fixed by people On this site
2. My "better" ones aren't nearly as nice as I thought now that I've seen some of the beautiful guns on here.