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Unread 02-24-2026, 11:01 AM   #1
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The ad says fresh to market but I am fairly certain(if memory serves) this is the gun that was featured in an article in double gun journal around 2002 that sold at an auction in Las Vegas fetching a then Parker Gun auction record of over $100,000. I may still have the issue of dgj it was featured in.

More pics, info: https://bid.guyetteanddeeter.com/lot...tgun-with-case
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Autumn 2000, page 84
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Lovely piece .
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It was displayed at one of our PGCA get togethers at that time in conjunction with an Ohio Gun Collector's Association show.
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First time I ever saw it was at the Southern well over a decade ago. I have seen it a few times since then. It is a truly remarkable Parker and it’s appearance is deceiving. You would think it’s a 8 1/2 lb gun but it feels like wand in the hand.





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Autumn 2000, page 84
In the description of the gun it says:

This gun was featured in a full length Double Gun Journal Article authored and photographed by William Headrick in the Autumn 2007 issue pages 84-95.
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Larry, that description in the catalog was in error, an error that I corrected in an earlier post. Check it out. The correct DGJ article is the one I mentioned in this post.
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Bill is correct. Worth looking up if for no other reason than seeing Bill Headrick's incomparable photographs.
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I was in regular correspondence with Bill in those years and after every issue of DGJ came out I'd have to go through a period of him bitching about how Cote's printers screwed up his Kodachromes and how much better Precision Shooting did with his work.

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Remarkably similar to this gun

https://parkerguns.org/forums/album....pictureid=2002
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