Thanks for another great Parker Pages

Craig Larter · 12-20-2013, 10:09 AM

Thanks to all the authors and Dean our very capable Editor for a great Parker Pages. Tom Breeden's article about Fred Gilbert was very interesting to me. I look forward to future articles about trapshooters and their guns (I am the caretaker of a Tom Keller trap/live bird gun). Are any of Gilbert's Parkers known to collectors???

Dean Romig · 12-20-2013, 10:43 AM

I still haven't received mine.

They were just mailed on Tuesday so, considering the extra Holiday mail, you were lucky to get yours this soon Craig.

Daryl Middlebrook · 12-20-2013, 10:53 AM

I received mine yesterday. I too would like to thank Dean & the other authors for a superb job. Youse guys all belong in the PGCA hall of fame.

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all PGCA members!!!!!!!

Dean Romig · 12-20-2013, 11:00 AM

Right back at ya Daryl - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to You and to all who read this thread.

Autumn Daze · 12-20-2013, 02:40 PM

Danny and I got ours today! WoHooo! Great job to enveryone involved.

B. Dudley · 12-20-2013, 04:32 PM

The layout of the peoples choice guns section is very nice!
And what a striking cover photo!

Dean Romig · 12-20-2013, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

The layout of the peoples choice guns section is very nice!
And what a striking cover photo!

Brandon Hoffman, the layout artist at Village Press is incredibly talented and it shows in each issue.

George and I were trying to decide on a backdrop for photographing his guns and then, all of a sudden I spied the stump of a huge oak George had removed a few years earlier and I knew right then what the backdrop would be. I'm glad he didn't hire a stump-grinder to remove it. Thanks for the compliment Brian.

Wild Skies · 12-20-2013, 05:45 PM

The back cover photo of Jay Gardner's "Tess" isn't too shabby either, could have been the centerfold.

OH Osthaus · 12-21-2013, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Greg Baehman

The back cover photo of Jay Gardner's "Tess" isn't too shabby either, could have been the centerfold.

agreed - I love that picture, it is one of the all time best setter photos I have ever seen. I would like to have a print to frame.

Bill Murphy · 12-21-2013, 12:23 PM

Craig, as I recall, one of Fred Gilbert's competition Parkers is in the collection of an obscure stockmaker from Maine, named David Trevallion. It was displayed in the Gold Medal Concours at Millbrook a few years back. I believe that gun was also written about in some publication a few years back.