I think most folks would be surprised at how few Parker 8 gauge guns were used by market hunters. If you hunted ducks for the market you couldn't have afforded one, there wasn't really a lot of money in that sort of work.
Legal market hunting ended in 1918, it was still going on in 1937 but nobody was using a $250 shotgun to do it.
Destry
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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