I was going through my "filing" and came across a note Dad made for me about his guns a couple years before he passed. Here is what he had to say for VH 145522, the gun featured in my nostalgic article in Parker Pages.
The Parker double barreled was purchased from Russels Sporting Goods in Calgary about 1952. It cost $85. At that time, I made my own ammunition and the first hunt with the shot gun I got 5 snow geese with 2 shots with reload BB's. There were four of us in the hunting party and we all crawled up on the geese. Just as they took off I fired twice as they were airborn and dropped five. Another time I made a high shot at a V of mallards and pintails. I got 5 ducks with one shot. The gun would knock the birds down between seventy five and eighty yards. One time the right side of the stock blew off in my face. I was wearing shooters glasses at the time. I got a lot of splinters in my right hand and some brass. Apparently the firing pin poked a hole through the primer and caused the charge to come back through the gun. This was the best shotgun I ever owned.
I was a lad for that 5 duck shot. My recollection was a line of mallards but he says it was a V of mallards and pintails. He made the shot, so I go with his recollection. You can see the repair to the stock head in the second last image. I shot the gun until 2003 when the left barrel failed. I think I finally have a line on a barrel set. Had I found them a couple years earlier, I wouldn't be spending as much time on the computer as a result of having found PGCA in my search for barrels.
Cheers,
Jack
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