What are your most memorable hunts with a Parker?
 

I have had a bunch of memorable hunts with a Parker but top on my list is a limit of big ducks with my 10ga AH. Second is a my late season hunt a few years back with friend Mark Kircher using my CHE. How about you??

When I took a turkey with my 8 gauge

My first hunt with Gunner's gun. I got the first grouse I ever shot at with it.

The only times my Chesapeake Sal ever pointed pheasants was when I was shooting my 12 ga. Trojan. It collected both of them. Odd thing is it was in the same field in two different years. Also I normally shoot pheasant with a 16 but chose the 12 those days. Dear old Sal has flushed plenty of birds but has never pointed one since. Thanks, I haven't thought about that for a while.

myfavorite hunt was when i took a deer with my 8 ga lifter with the pumpkin ball load i made myself..secound huny most favorite was the turkey i took with a fa loomis 8 ga at 67 steps...charlie

Diver Hunting
 

My sons and I just love to decoy and work whistlers into a specific area of the rig.....This day we had a triple retrieve with three different dogs......each dog swimming about ten feet behind the other and all birds brought to hand ...special

I will only have one... this year. After acquiring Parkers for my brother and myself this year, we choose mid November to test our skills without having to "guide" others. Turns out I was on target for the weekend, much to his enjoyment. He never got a good shot, and doesn't care. It was just him and I, two VH 16's and Northern Wisconsin.

A hunt near Forest City ,Maine with my two dogs---Belle and Meg----with Lance Wheaton and Tom Wooden several years ago.

We hit a flight that had come in during the night, the limit of woodcock was 3 per person, around 10 am I asked ,"How many birds do we have?". Tom said none, Lance said one and I said seven. We broke up and I had not walked more than 100 feet when Meg went on point, I flushed the bird and said to the others---"We are all Done !"

We still talk about that hunt. I had my PHE -24"--28 gauge along with the best two, woodcock and grouse, Brits I ever owned---Meg & Belle

I had great hunts with those two dogs and when I retired from the Board , the PGCA gave me an oil panting of them of which I enjoy on a daily basis.

When I went with Bruce Day, Charlie Herzog and Richard Flanders. Nothing but Parkers. Richard and I rode together enjoyed the visit. Took Charlie Cleveland hunting it was fun as well. The one I went on yesterday with my boy was capital. Sam made a beautiful point Nett (with a J) drew feathers on a tough kansas rooster. Hmmmm I guess all of them. ch

I have so many favorites I wouldn't even know where to start. I've written about some of them and Austin published them in Parker Pages years ago. I have accumulated many more since those. One that comes immediately to mind is one of the first times I took my grandson Cameron to grouse camp with me. I knocked down a nice grouse and he hit the ground running pretty close to Cam. I hollered "Grab him Cam!" and Cam gave chase and dived at the grouse coming up with only a handful of tail feathers and a surprised look on his face. I put my Parker down and sprinted (funny picture there) after the bird and finally grabbed him by the body this time. We had lots of laughs over that one and it is still a favorite story at grouse camp.

In the second picture that white spot is the skin of the bird's tail where the feathers used to be :whistle:





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