Not a Parker ,,, but I have an excuse

[Fred Slyfield]

Last week I made a mad dash from Washington to my buddys farm in North Dakota for the final 5 days of pheasant season.

We had great weather the first three days with temps in the 30's (above zero)!!

The last two days were -18 with a wind chill of -45 at times, My new 18 month old wirehair pup Zu-Zu did a great job on pheasants, she is a absolute hunting machine and retrieved about 20 roosters back to us.

I was really hoping to use my 1913 vintage 16 gauge Parker I had recently bought but due to a crack in the wrist I had sent the gun to Kody Kearcher for some of his TLC to the gun, Anyway I did manage to hunt with my Steyer 12 ga. ,my LC Smith 16 and my old reliable browning superposed.



This is my Steyr 12 with double triggers and auto ejectors, I was shooting a 1 oz RST #5 load in the gun for these birds, as best as I can find out this gun was first started in 1924 but not finished until 1931? It has a lever under the forearm that allows you to cut off the ejectors and manually extract the shells.

[Brush Buster]

Fred , Great Pictures ,The engraving on the Fences are beautiful ,probably a Standard German Oak Leaf ??? Your new Pup looks like he had a Great Trip also , nothing like Birds, Birds , Birds for a young Dog ! Thanks for posting and hopefully you will have that Parker back in hand in the near future ! Russ

[Fred Slyfield]

Man I hope so, Kody E-mailed me the other day, sounded like he should have it done before to long,

The gun came from a farm in Nebraska a very good family friends dad bought it new in 1913 and I recently got it from his son who is 81 years old, I have ordered a research letter for the gun, I'm excited to see what comes back on it's history!

Best

Fred

[charlie cleveland]

mighty good hunt you had there sounds like it was a little chilly there ...charlie

[Heff]

Great picture! Tell Zu-Zu That Milo says hello, and good job!

[Fred Slyfield]

Milo is a cool looking dog! I just love the different looks that breed can throw at you, I got several from Zu-Zu when I missed a bird, or two, or three!!

[Heff]

Yes they can, and as a grouse hunter I am well aware of the look you speak of. He has heard my entire list of grouse hunting miss excuses, and now I just simply apologize and we move on....