Last Call for Parker Pages Material
 

For those who had intended to contribute articles for the Autumn Issue of Parker Pages, Monday July 16 is the deadline.
Please contact me if you are having difficulty with anything that might prevent you from meeting that deadline and I will do anything I can to assist you.
Once again, I want to make the usual request for good, well-researched technical articles as we never have enough it seems. It would be nice to have a small library of such articles so we will accept such articles any time you feel you have a 'finished product' that we can add to our library.

Best, Dean

It's to hot to write...they call it writers block...I'll try to loosen things up with some Buffalo Trace (my new best Burbon..try it you'll like it). Maybe it's time to raid the forum:bigbye:

Rich, how about putting together a tech or research article on the "Hollywood Gun" with hi-def pictures?

That would be awesome! And WE KNOW you can write well.....:bowdown:

It's 82 degrees IN THE HOUSE:cuss: The wife thinks it's wonderfull, no need for the AC:banghead:. I'm heading for the basement. Somewhere I have a copy of the PGCA letter for that gun. It doesn't say much just the description as a GHE with all the options sent from Parker in Illion to Montgomery Ward in Chicago. I'm not much into the tech side of things.

I have always thought that "raiding the forum" was a good filler, but that was not utilized to any extent.

Others may wish to "raid the forum" and put the posts into a reasonably assembled text document but I really don't think that's what our readership at large expects from Parker Pages... I may be wrong. In the meantime I will continue to solicit well-researched technical and historical articles for publication. I have absolutely nothing against the discussions on the forum and I probably post to the forum at least as much as anyone else but at least two thirds of our membership are not "connected" and most of them wish not to be.
We have some exceptionally good technicians and historians in our organization who can put together a fine article as well as some very good writers in the areas of shooting and hunting who also have written some great stories for our journal. So, for those who can and do write - please keep it up, we really do like to read your great contributions. And for those who haven't but think they might... please do and send them to me.

Hollywood gun??
 

what is the Hollywood Gun??
sounds like a wonderful article.

George the "Hollywood Gun" is a GHE 16ga skeet gun on a #1 frame. Its a late production gun 1941 I think. The gun is a two bbl set both being 28 inches, one choked skt/skt the other M/F. Both bbls have their own BTF and vent ribs. A straight stock and SST rounds out the options. The gun went to Alex Kerrs in Hollwood and the engraveing was redone in a much finer and more elaborate style than a std GHE and the birds were done in gold and the background stippled to bring them out. With it's connection to Kerrs a dealer in Hollywood, Ca it gets it's name "The Hollywood" gun. It's a go to gun for me on the clays course.

And that gun deserves a nice Parker Pages article...

How much digging have you done Rich, in trying to discover which 1940's movie star or Hollywood mogul might have ordered that gun through Kerr's? That would be a fantastic piece of valuable provenance.