A Parker Trap VH

[Dean Romig]

This VH seems to conform to the premise that trap shooters will go to great lengths to ensure their guns are up to the task.

I was going through one of Austin’s photo albums yesterday and came across these pictures. This gun was the subject of a Parker Pages article Austin published about 15 years ago - does anybody remember it?

I’ll have to find the article to discover if this gun came from Meriden this way.


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[Harold Pickens]

Ouch, think I'd find a good surgeon and have that growth removed. Might be better to remodel your face to conform to the gun, than change the gun to conform to your face!

[John Davis]

As I recall, the Dorsa gun had a similar stock configuration.

[Bill Murphy]

That is the Dorsa gun. It may still be in the PGCA collection.

[Dean Romig]

Yes, it is the gun donated to the PGCA by Paul Dorsa.
It is a Remington era gun and there is nothing that would support the stock being a factory modification.


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[John Davis]

I didn't remember it having the vent rib and beaver tail forearm, but then I wasn't really in to that kind of stuff the last time I saw the gun. The Dorsa gun was sold by the PGCA several years ago.

[6pt-Sika]

Thats for a trap/schuetzen shooter

[Researcher]

That is a really bland piece of wood in that stock for a late Remington era VHE. When did they drop the notch in the vent rib ramp?

FWIW the next gun, 241233, is the Bill Mullins 3 1/2 inch 10-gauge VHE, shown in The Parker Story.

[John Davis]

As I recall, the stock was considered to be original. Don't know what that was based on. Do we know how the gun was choked?

[Researcher]

Did the PGCA pull the trigger guard and look for the serial number stamped in the wood?