These pictures are from one of Austin Hogan’s several notebooks. They are all hand plotted by Austin and accuracy was his middle name. I wish I had been in on the conversations with him and Charlie Price and Bill Hoover and Bill Furnish, all very serious students of Parker guns.
For the porpose of this conversation, charts are simply to illustrate the fact that none of the changes in chamber to bore, as well as the chokes, didn’t begin or end with an abrupt angle but folllowed an ogee.
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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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