[TARNATION !!!]

32" VH 12 ga F/M CPG DHBP. This was my Dad's gun. I grew up in awe of that gun in my Dad's hands. He gave it to me in the early '80's. I shot a lot of birds with it until 2003 when the left barrel failed. It is now an 18" coach gun. I finally got a set of barrels that fit it, so it will be back in the field this fall.



I asked Dad to write a bit about each of his guns before he passed. Here is what he had to say about 145522.

The Parker double barreled was purchased from Russels Sporting Goods in Calgary about 1952. It cost $85. At that time, I made my own ammunition and the first hunt with the shot gun I got 5 snow geese with 2 shots with reload BB's. There were four of us in the hunting party and we all crawled up on the geese. Just as they took off I fired twice as they were airborn and dropped five. Another time I made a high shot at a V of mallards and pintails. I got 5 ducks with one shot. The gun would knock the birds down between seventy five and eighty yards. One time the right side of the stock blew off in my face. I was wearing shooters glasses at the time. I got a lot of splinters in my right hand and some brass. Apparently the firing pin poked a hole through the primer and caused the charge to come back through the gun. This was the best shotgun I ever owned.