Steve’s questions are good ones. It’s certainly not uncommon for a gun that old to have pitting. If it is indeed a Parker, and not one of the knockoffs, you should get a knowledgeable person with the right equipment to examine it… before you shoot it.
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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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