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Sure looks right
Unread 07-13-2025, 07:32 PM   #8
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Default Sure looks right

[QUOTE=Dave Noreen;433150]Serial number 10208 is marked PLAIN TWIST and is a Grade 0, 12-gauge, Quality U.

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parker20.jpgsure looks like it, but mine has checkered stock & forestock - - maybe grade 1, or maybe done later - - ? There is also a black insert on the very front of the forestock, that looks like plastic - - but can't be if it original - - you have one of those?

I worked for MODICON, in the old mill building, and have the dubious honor of selling the first programmable controller to Exxon - - the very first in the petro-chemical business, I believe. Stayed at the old Inn on Andover Academy campus when I made my monthly visits - - got the same room, next to a big pine tree, where crows landed and woke me (without fail) at 6am. (Also had a German shorthair at one time).

You are on the wrong side of Texas to get here easily, and I don't have a good spot for wing shooting - - but if you want to drop a wild hog or two, come on over.
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