Pads

[Mark Page]

I have 2 DH Parkers one in 20ga and 1 in 12. Both have straight stocks, splinter forends and skeletal butts.
I have been asked to sell a DHE for an MD friend of mine. Most every one I've looked at seems to have a rubber butt pad with a thin white line spacer. Even ones that were refinished by Del Greggo have a Del Greggo brand rubber pad. Were these on pistol grip guns only and the skeleton butts saved for the straight stock models?

[Pa SxS]

All DH's/DHE's and higher in grade all had skeleton butt plates as standard equipment unless ordered with a rubber recoil pad. Stock configuration whether pistol grip or straight doesn't matter.

[Kensal Rise]

Mark:
If any pad has a "white line" incorporated, it was never original equipment on a Parker. This '50s-tacky feature was a hallmark of the Pachmayr pads... and still is to some degree. I suppose racing stripes never die.

Best, Kensal

[Bruce Day]

Originally Posted by Kensal Rise

Mark:
If any pad has a "white line" incorporated, it was never original equipment on a Parker. .....

Are you sure about that?

What about those very late Rem Parkers that appear to have white line pads as original? Those ones made in 1939-42 and even those few made post war.

Mr Rise, I see you have quickly become quite active on the Parker forum and are answering a lot of questions about Parker shotguns, yet I do not see that you are or have been a member of the Parker Gun Collectors Association. We have an informative journal, the Parker Pages, now 16 years old , and annual meetings where Parkers are discussed and exhibited. I invite you to join.