For all you big bore fans
 

Taken from the March 1937 issue of Hunter,Trader,Trapper magazine. Read to the botton of the Winchester 32 Caliber Automatic column. Happy Easter!

Dave, Now if you will just get that time machine done...

seem like a high price for 1937. wonder what grade it is and who has it now? scott

Cool! That outfit was in Minnesota. I wonder if that Parker was used for 'Market Hunting' on the Mississippi Flyway? Ja, that was a lot of ducats in 1937, you betcha! Thanks for sharing.

Frayseth's was a major dealer in big bore shotguns. They advertised that they were buying big bores all the time and they offered many big bores in their classified ads. I get the impression that their customers were shooting big guns long after they were outlawed for waterfowl.

im gonna go to the bank and barrow that 250.00 dollars in the morning and get that parker 8 gauge...thanks for the heads up and a good EASTER SUNDAY to all also....ps may get that 3 doolar 12 ga single to if they will loan me 3 more dollars....yep times are still hard.... charlie

The $250 in 1935 would approximate what an 8 gauge Parker in fine condition would go for today--$8,000 to $12,000. Nothing really gets much more valuable after youconsider the effects of accumulated inflation.

I agree completely... very high price for that time.

This one is also from the same time period.



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I always wanted a big one. :)

I think most folks would be surprised at how few Parker 8 gauge guns were used by market hunters. If you hunted ducks for the market you couldn't have afforded one, there wasn't really a lot of money in that sort of work.

Legal market hunting ended in 1918, it was still going on in 1937 but nobody was using a $250 shotgun to do it.


Destry