Great old gun Paul with some really nice engraving (for a change!). A lot of the "stylized" dogs of this SN era came out looking like Pluto and Skeezix; bizarre and frightening in a cartoon caricature sort of way. BTW - absence of a safety is not an automatic validation of a "pigeon gun." There are dozens of smallbore Parkers floating around that were ordered without safeties for a variety of reasons. Never automatically assume that a gun without one is a "pigeon gun." Hallmarks of true pigeon guns built for box bird or columbaire flyer shoots invariably were ordered with long barrels, tight chokes, very straight combs with little variance in drops at comb and/or heel, and in many but not all cases straight grips. (Some believed that the straight grip automatically helped to rotate the elbow upwards, bringing the face into closer and tighter contact with the stock).
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