Craftsmen Generations Apart
As a postscript to Labor Day: Here's to the craftsmen who made our beloved Parker shotguns, and those today who help keep them looking good and finely tuned.  In the case of this 1927 AH 16 gauge, I don't know the names of those who created it, but Parker Batchelder made the stock right again.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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