Make sure you leave behind an invitation list to that estate sale, there are a lot of us who would want to see that 32 VHE. I guess we are the generation who heard of Parkers but shot Stevens and model 12's with little or no blueing left on them. I grew up in one of the largest counties in TN and to my knowledge there were two parkers, one owned by the hardware store owner and other the county judge. But fishing was throwing the jon boat in the back of the pickup with the 10 horse Johnson and off to the lake when Daddy got off work or hurrying to the swamp to catch the woodies as they were dropping in for the night, 30 minutes like shooting bats in the twilight but great fun. Had fun and learned about living, like raiding a farmers watermelon patch in the dark...the next morning, Daddy looked at that giant watermelon and said "Do you know what you did son?" Right on top of that watermelon was a little "X", I had stolen the farmers seed melon he had been growing all summer for next years seed! That was all Daddy said ,but to this day I still regret it and have never stolen another watermelon. That farmer shot an old Remington model 11. Yea, we had fun and what we didn't have still makes me proud of what we can have today and I know those ole timers who taught us are looking down and smiling today.
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