Parker Skeet guns

[Tim]

I can not find any information on skeet guns made by Parker. I have read about them on various gun selling sites but I can't find any information here.

[B. Dudley]

A search of the forum topics for "Skeet Gun" turns up 20 pages. If you start looking through those, you are bound to find something of use to you.

Factory Skeet Guns are also covered in detail in the written works on Parkers, specifically The Parker Story.

[Bruce Day]

From the 1936 Remington Parker catalog , when the Parker Skeet Gun was first offered.

[Dean Romig]

As most everyone knows, the game of Skeet was developed in Andover, MA in the late teens into the twenties and was originally called "clock shooting". In 1926 William Harnden Foster, editor and publisher of The National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing magazines put an ad for a contest for a new name for the game with a $100 prize to go to the person who sent in the name that would be chosen.

Parker (Remington Arms) finally adopted the name of "Skeet Gun" as Bruce points out, in 1936. But Parker Bros was producing Skeet configured guns well before '36 and there are several examples out there.

Refer to my article in the Autumn 2017 Issue of Parker Pages, "The Elliot's Twenty-bore Parker Bros. Skeet Gun" It was a DHE with 26" barrels, BTFE, SST, twin beads, and choked for Skeet targets. Certainly intentionally ordered for upland game as well as the game of Skeet - which the Elliot family excelled at. The serial number is 236162 which was made prior to Remington Arms purchase of the Parker Gun works.


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[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Parker (Remington Arms) finally adopted the name of "Skeet Gun" as Bruce points out, in 1936. But Parker Bros was producing Skeet configured guns well before '36 and there are several examples out there.

Do you or anyone else know when Remington Arms started stamping the barrel flats with "Skeet In" and "Skeet Out"? I believe it was done in the years just before 1936.

[Steve Hodges]

Pete, according to the Parker Pages sometime "about" 1937

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hodges

Pete, according to the Parker Pages sometime "about" 1937

As you know I have a 12ga GHE Skeet properly configured and stamped with no sign of ever being refinished/upgraded. Case exists in only protected areas, barrel bluing shows carry wear above the receiver. Scratches in stock finish. The letter on the gun says the following; the gun was begun in June 1934, shipped to the warehouse on January 13, 1935. It was shipped to a EC Palmer on March 23, 1936. It featured Parker Special Steel Barrels with a length of 26". It's stock configuration is straight grip. The Ledger records it having a Single trigger and Trap Model Forend.

It also has double ivory beads, manual safety, tightest choke by measurement and stamping in/on right barrel, checkered butt, barrel flats stamped "Skeet In" and "Skeet Out".

It is a transition gun as it has Parker Bros. on the top rib and Parker on the underside of the receiver.

Seems right as rain to me.

[Bruce Day]

Hundreds if not thousands of Parker skeet guns were made through the 60’s , 70’s and 80’s. A person could get one made today if wanted.

[Dean Romig]

I think what Bruce may be saying is that a true Parker Skeet Gun is one that was made under Remington's ownership and the chokes actually stamped "SKEET" on the barrel flats.





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[Mills]

My 28 gauge was probably made into a skeet gun after Remington closed. I know it was one of the Parkers used by Winchester Repeating Arms as a test gun so we are lucky any part of the gun exists at all.