[Wild Skies]

Occasionally we see ads for Parker guns listing them with terms and phrases such as: unfired, possibly unfired, never fired, new, New-In-Box, etc. All of these guns were either test fired, went through a proving process or maybe some were test fired and some weren't -- those going straight from the factory to the dealer to the customer.

I realize all Parkers were stamped as being proved, but were, each and every, Parker Bros. gun proved individually? Were each and every Remington Parker proved individually? How about Parker Reproductions, were each and every one of them proved individually?

In the strictest sense of the term unfired, any gun that has been test fired is not truly unfired. I guess we're still kind of living in the Wild West when it comes to defining unfired. How do we make sense of it all?