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Originally Posted by Russell E. Cleary
They're OK if your father put one on the stock of the Parker he bought from a local farmer in the 1950s, so it would fit him; and of the four Parkers he owned it was his go-to game-getter -- possibly because of that unorthodox alteration.
Heritage!
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Russell, your gun sounds like a treasure. Beauty is as beauty was, and it was a beauty to your father.
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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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