Your Parker Gun Collectors Association Board of Directors has approved a brand new program entitled “The Doubles Club”.
A special pin has been created utilizing the old style Parker Bros. letterhead featuring two Parkers, one hammer gun and one hammerless, with the familiar woodcock. The pin is silver and a handsome addition to your hunting cap, vest, or gun club attire. A facsimile is affixed for you.
The program is simple and relies on the honor system, of which we know all PGCA members subscribe. The specific requirements to become a member of “The Doubles Club” are as follows:
- You must be a member of the PGCA in good standing.
- You must have shot “A Double” with a Parker Gun.
- Only listed game birds apply: i.e. doves, ducks, geese, grouse, woodcock et al
- The definition of “A Double” is: both birds must be in the air at the same time. That eliminates the often probability of a bird rising after the first bird is dispatched and you then score on the second riser with the second barrel.
Should your expertise, keen shooting eye, or even the remote possibility of luck being a factor result in a sort of “holy grail” of wingshooting and you wish to be a part of this elite Club, send a note or e-mail that includes the month, day and year and specie of birds shot to
Mary Bowes
PGCA Membership
477 Ocean Avenue
Wells, Maine 04090
or
pgcamembership@gmail.com . She will, in turn, send you this special pin and a letter acknowledging accomplishment of this feat.
Pins are not limited to only one double shot but our Chairman will be suspicious of any hats ringed with doubles pins. I assured him that our fine and honorable members are of the highest order and would only have to live with themselves should any imagination be linked to such “dead eye” shots.
Good luck and good shooting,
Art Wheaton
President