The Best Deal for me was the first Parker I bought after having long wanted one of my own. I first used a borrowed Trojan 12 for a few years when I was about 13 but had to return it when its owner was about to move to the Boise area.
The first Parker I bought was in about 2000 or 2001, about 40 years later. It is a beautiful 12/30” Titanic DH with F/F chokes that has been my preferred turkey,waterfown,trap,5-stand,and sometimes SC gun. I have shot this gun more than any of my other Parkers. It fits me like it was made specifically for me and is certainly one of my favorite Parkers. The late Russ Bickel correctly tightened the Titanic barrels to the frame and reblued them and I also had him refinish and fit a set of 30" Damascus barrels to it with chokes of IC/MOD.
I bought it at Kittery Trading Post for $2000 which was probably too much money but the gun dept. nanager wouldn’t budge from the price and I simply had to have that gun. 90739 resides in the front row of my 47-gun safe and comes out often. It truly was the best deal I ever made on a Parker even though I did pay full retail for it.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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