Long Lost Parker
 

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Missing:

Parker CHE
Serial No. 132269
115 years old, but doesn't look its age.
12 gauge
32" barrels
straight stock replaced in 2008

Come home, and I will take good care of you. I apologize for ever selling you.

If you know who owns this gun, please send me a PM. I would like to buy it back.

Old guns matter!

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nice

family gun??

or just seller's regret

The latter.

It would be a fitting end to find it for sale on a gun dealer's site.

Like all guns, it has a story to tell. And at 115 it has a long one!

I told a part of it once.

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Steven , A very nice gun ,with the internet there is always the possibility of locating it ! Locating it might depend on how long ago you parted with it ! High grade guns seem to have staying qualities in collections and I have read usually around twelve years or so on the average , I don't know if that's true or not but I have parted company with many lower grade guns over the years ,while I have a CHE 20 Gauge that I have owned for at least 15 years or so ! Good Luck in your search !

Thanks. As luck would have it, I sold it twelve years ago.

Steven,

A great article. What moment of weakness overtook you to sell it?

Ken

Nice read Steve.

Briley screw in chokes?? $500 spent to lower the value of a gun by approximately $2500. To each his own. I don't know how hard I would look for this great gun. Of course, it may be priced to reflect the installation of the Brileys. Good luck in your search.

Just start with contacting who you sold it to and work forward from there. If You have not done that already.

I DID NOT put Brileys in the gun - heaven forbid! :eek:

I love the barrel work Briley does on bores; they have the best machining in the business. But bringing up choke tubes was in the context of other options, like a single trigger, none of which did I select.

If I had my way, there would be fixed chokes in my DT10 sporting gun. I haven't changed chokes in that gun in ten years.

Please forgive any misunderstanding.

I am a firm believer in fixed chokes, double barrels, and double triggers.