My friend Ed Clapper writes a monthly column for Shotgun Sports Magazine under the title of "Average Ed." We both saw the gun at the Grand American and from my limited memory, the only thing it had in common with our Parkers were the recessed hinge pin look and the scalloped receiver. As you can read from Ed's response, they never got back to him on testing the gun. I've been to many ATA major events and never saw one actually being used, and at the price they were quoting, which is at the top of the price range of the Seitz's and Perazzi's, I doubt that I will.
To quote Ed's response:
Shotgun Sports Magazine editor-in-chief Johnny Cantu and I spoke with one of the owners of the company at the Grand in 2005, the first (and only?) year they had a display there. I handled the guns they brought to Vandalia and was supposed to be contacted by them to arrange for a gun to be sent to me for a review in SSM. After not hearing from them for a month or so after the conclusion of the Grand, I sent two emails to the email address on the business card I was given (and still have, I'm pretty sure) but never got a response. My emails were not returned as "undeliverable," so I can only assume they were received but perhaps they dropped the idea of a trap gun.
As I recall, they were even contemplating a single barrel-over/under trap combo at that time. They seemed really interested in the trap market and seemed genuinely excited about having a trapshooting columnist shoot one for a while. We even discussed release triggers, which I would need, and if it would be okay for my son to do the shooting if I couldn't get releases installed in the test gun or they didn't want that done.
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