[QUOTE=Dean Romig; a stone's throw from Concord Bridge where colonial American's exercised their own form of guerilla warfare on the highly regimented British Redcoats...
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I'm envious of those of you who grew up with Parkers and other fine shotguns. I recall Pop talking about Foxes and Parkers, but we had J.C. Higgins and the like in my early days, all we could afford growing up in coastal Virginia. We belonged to a poor man's hunt club, a group of church guys who knew a rich judge who owned 400 acres. This was near Williamsburg, VA (my home town) and sandwiched between Yorktown and Jamestown, we also were close to some early American history (I had to mention this for Dean and those members from New England). My best deer stand was from the top of a Revolutionary War embankment within a stones throw (literally) of the Colonial Parkway (a national park). We hunted squirrels and deer using guns a cut or two (or more) below a Parker. I do remember Pop shooting deer with a Stevens 311 20 gauge, but that's as close as we came to a fine double in my youth. Missouri writer Joel Vance and his buddy from Missouri (at the time), Michael McIntosh, turned me on to fine American double guns through their books and articles. I never thought I'd own a Parker, and feel very privileged to do so now. I also wish my Pop could see and use my Parkers now. I'm sure he'd appreciate them and what it took to acquire one.