Pads
 

I have 2 DH Parkers one in 20ga and 1 in 12. Both have straight stocks, splinter forends and skeletal butts.
I have been asked to sell a DHE for an MD friend of mine. Most every one I've looked at seems to have a rubber butt pad with a thin white line spacer. Even ones that were refinished by Del Greggo have a Del Greggo brand rubber pad. Were these on pistol grip guns only and the skeleton butts saved for the straight stock models?

All DH's/DHE's and higher in grade all had skeleton butt plates as standard equipment unless ordered with a rubber recoil pad. Stock configuration whether pistol grip or straight doesn't matter.

Mark:
If any pad has a "white line" incorporated, it was never original equipment on a Parker. This '50s-tacky feature was a hallmark of the Pachmayr pads... and still is to some degree. I suppose racing stripes never die.

Best, Kensal

Are you sure about that?

What about those very late Rem Parkers that appear to have white line pads as original? Those ones made in 1939-42 and even those few made post war.

Mr Rise, I see you have quickly become quite active on the Parker forum and are answering a lot of questions about Parker shotguns, yet I do not see that you are or have been a member of the Parker Gun Collectors Association. We have an informative journal, the Parker Pages, now 16 years old , and annual meetings where Parkers are discussed and exhibited. I invite you to join.