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Unread 09-07-2012, 12:37 AM   #1
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Just got home from shooting at a VERY exclusive club in CT. 40 members and 1000 acres. I was a guest and everybody else was shooting the latest clay munching guns. You know the names. We were shooting flurry and five stand all afternoon.
BUT what did everybody want to fondle?????
My 28 gauge VH(E), my 12 Gauge CHE and my 20 gauge VH.
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Unread 09-07-2012, 05:40 AM   #2
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We would have expected nothing less.
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George,

You should have charged each of those fondlers a fee, like a PGCA membership!

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Those guys had never seen guns with such "soul".
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Suppose anybody cought the bug fondling them?
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Suppose anybody cought the bug fondling them?
They most definitely did.
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Unread 09-08-2012, 01:14 PM   #7
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George;
Happens every time I shoot. I shoot sxs's exclusively and as my gun of the day is in the rack, invariably, 1 or 2 guys are standing there hunched over admiring the gun either asking "What is that" or "Is that a Parker". It really blows their minds when I'm shooting a damascus hammer.
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Some shooters, like Kevin McCormack and Bill Murphy, have shot since we were in high school with Parkers and Model 21s at out local clubs. It was a slow educational process, but we finally got a few, or more than a few, to spend a couple of hundred dollars here and there on a double gun to shoot at our clubs. Even though the dollars have been spent on double guns that Kevin and I and others showed them, these shooters are not in regular attendance at our shoots, even though there are probably six or seven clubs involved. Today, I went to our pigeon club for a nice 25 bird shoot, had a great time, stopped at a skeet and trap club that is ten minutes from my house, will attend the first shoot of our first fall sporting clays shoot tomorrow. At all of these clubs, side by sides will be shot, but not in volume. If people like Kevin and I had not shown these people that targets could be hit with these guns, and money could be made on these guns, they wouldn't be shooting them. When I was a teenager, there was no one shooting these guns at clay targets in my area except me, and Kevin. Things have changed, but not enough. Get out there and show them your guns.
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I can't say me hauling around my Parkers to various shoots has got anybody to buy one but they certainly generate some good conversation. I got to a couple pigeon shoots a year and there's always one guy there with a Model 21 but that's it for doubles unless Capt. Money aka Don Kaas is in attendance.


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Oddly enough, at a pigeon shoot today, I saw a gun that was once owned by Don Kaas or our late buddy, Russ Bickel. Our legacy of double shotguns will outlive us by many years.
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