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Unread 02-01-2016, 09:18 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Rich Anderson View Post
As we know Parker did some pretty weird things with the floor plates such as the stags on C grades and above. As I don't have my copy of TPS handy didn't the number of birds (or as some fondly call them flying turnips) relate to the grade of the gun? I noticed on my CHE 20 that I took Quail hunting this past week that there were 5 of these "birds" instead of what I thought should have been 4 for a C grade gun. All my D grades have 3 birds on the floor plate.

That's the puzzlement I've had about the number of birds on the floor plate of Parkers.

Almost inevitably a;
Grade 2 will have 2 birds
Grade 3 will have 4 birds
Grade 4 will have 5 birds (if it has birds at all)
Grade 5 will rarely have birds at all

There is apparently no correlation between the grade number and the number of birds on the floor plate.






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