Parkers at the gunshow

[Milton C Starr]

I guess I should have woke up earlier today and went to the gunshow and looked at some Parkers. My brother sent me these pics not sure what gauges they are but he did say the guy also had a 10 gauge loading manual I think the one from BPI.

[charlie cleveland]

I went to a small gun show last week only seen one parker it must have had some gold in it some where it was way out of my reach....no interesting guns seen....charlie

[todd allen]

My first Parker came from a gun show. (mid 1980s) Amidst all of the modern/black guns, there was a table where a family was disposing of the late grandfathers relics.
I had no real knowledge of the Parker gun, other than name recognition, but I was an upland hunter who preferred a SxS.
I don't remember anything about the rest of the stuff on the table, but an old, dark Parker 12 was there, and I kinda liked it, despite the clearly marked Damascus warning on the rib.
When I mentioned the Damascus thing, the kid said give me $250.00, and it's yours. Turns out I now owned a pretty nice G grade with 30" BBLs.
That's where and how it started with me, the rest of the story will be for another time.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by todd allen

My first Parker came from a gun show. (mid 1980s) Amidst all of the modern/black guns, there was a table where a family was disposing of the late grandfathers relics.
I had no real knowledge of the Parker gun, other than name recognition, but I was an upland hunter who preferred a SxS.
I don't remember anything about the rest of the stuff on the table, but an old, dark Parker 12 was there, and I kinda liked it, despite the clearly marked Damascus warning on the rib.
When I mentioned the Damascus thing, the kid said give me $250.00, and it's yours. Turns out I now owned a pretty nice G grade with 30" BBLs.
That's where and how it started with me, the rest of the story will be for another time.

Todd, you were smarter than I. And now I think of all of the really nice, and very affordable at the time, composite barreled doubles I saw for sale when I first started looking to shoot a side-by-side. All I read said to not shoot them. Ah, hindsight...

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

Todd, you were smarter than I. And now I think of all of the really nice, and very affordable at the time, composite barreled doubles I saw for sale when I first started looking to shoot a side-by-side. All I read said to not shoot them. Ah, hindsight...

Well, I had already been consorting with mad scientists in the dubious practice of shooting ancient guns and breaking with the ban on Damascus.
Sorcery at the loading table had already produced some low pressure loads to feed a very early LC Smith, and I hadn't lost any fingers yet, so the "G" got a little use.
I loved the Parker "G", and would have stopped there, but the dimensions didn't really work for me, and then just like that: Another one came along. This time with perfect dimensions, and then, next thing you know, I was a Parker collector. Even though I didn't know it at the time.

[Milton C Starr]

Any idea on what the Top and bottom Parkers may be ?
I dont usually go to gun shows as I never really buy spur of the moment usually I know what I want or am looking for. Except for my Grade 2 10 ga TA that was kind of spur of the moment but im going to blame that one on Wayne haha.

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by todd allen

My first Parker came from a gun show. (mid 1980s) Amidst all of the modern/black guns, there was a table where a family was disposing of the late grandfathers relics.
I had no real knowledge of the Parker gun, other than name recognition, but I was an upland hunter who preferred a SxS.
I don't remember anything about the rest of the stuff on the table, but an old, dark Parker 12 was there, and I kinda liked it, despite the clearly marked Damascus warning on the rib.
When I mentioned the Damascus thing, the kid said give me $250.00, and it's yours. Turns out I now owned a pretty nice G grade with 30" BBLs.
That's where and how it started with me, the rest of the story will be for another time.

My first Parker I got from Josh Loew honestly if it wasnt for him willing to work with a young guy on getting his first Parker I was starting to think it wasnt meant to be. I have looked at old auctions from the 90s or early 2000s the price I seen some nice functional 8 gauge doubles go for makes me slighly sad haha.

[winplumber]

Was wondering if the Vendor who had these Parkers is a member here and could tell us what were missing out on

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by Steve Huffman

Was wondering if the Vendor who had these Parkers is a member here and could tell us what were missing out on

It was the gunshow in Dothan AL this past weekend.

[charlie cleveland]

not far from me....charlie