There were two articles written up about the PGCA's Research Team's trip to Illion in the Sept/Oct 1998 Parker Parkers. Kevin McCormack wrote a lengthly article about the entire trip and Ron Kirby did a piece uner the Secretarys Notes. 30,000 pages were copied in 4 1/2 days by the team. The team consisted of Ron Kirby, Bill Murphy, Jim Hall, Allan Swanson, Frank Sweeney, Paul Burns, Dr. Dave Rosier and Mark Conrad. I had only been in the PGCA for two years. We worked very hard but more importantly we had fun. Friendships were developed that have lasted all these years.
Remington treated the team to a very nice dinner and offered us the employee price for any of their products. We spent a little time looking through the museum and items related to Parker Bros. I loved the Trojan Skeet gun prototype with its single trigger(miller) and ejectors (Win Model 21). I think it was a 12 bore. That gun in a 28 or a 410 would be nice.
It was a wonderful week in which all of us knew we had done something very special. I still cherish the week and would do it again in a heart beat.
Mark
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