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Originally Posted by J. Scott Hanes
David, are the initials on the grip cap your father's?
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This gun would have been made around the time my grandfather was born. So there is no chance this is original to our family. The initials do not match to anyone I can think of. He grew up on a farm in rural Nebraska and I dont think they had the money to buy a chicken let alone a fancy shot gun. After WWII he had a law practice in a small town and made enough to get by. I wish i had him write a story about each gun and how he came to own them .. but that is lost to time. My mom knows a little about the guns but nothing more than family stories. I can only imagine he was buying them from Field & Stream ads or something like that. I have no memory of him every traveling to a gun show out of state. But I he was most passionate about Parker guns and knew exactly the quality and importance of the guns. That part of it was very deliberate..