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[Mills]

Dean, if you don't have your issue by now, the pony must have died along the way and it is time to request a new one

[Dean Romig]

In November coming from Michigan?…. The pony was probably mistaken for a deer and was shot…





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[Dean Romig]

Just checked the mailbox - it must have been delivered yesterday.

I always read “Parkers In Pulp” by John Davis, first and I’m about halfway through it when I read, according to the August 17th entry, the mainsprings on our hammerless Parkers were guaranteed for 25 years. John notes “Parker certainly didn’t lose any money on that guarantee.” I’ll go one further by saying I think Parker might have really boisted their sales numbers by guaranteeing those springs for fifty or even seventy-five years.

I wonder if any of us shooting our hammerless Parkers have experienced a broken mainspring?





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[Mills]

I'll put money on our Parkers outlasting many of the new guns coming on the market today

[Dean Romig]

Hi Mills - please explain the meaning of your term “rep champion” in your Fred Gilbert article, which incidently, was well written and very well researched.
Also of great importance was your credits paragraph at the end.

May I presume it means ‘manufacturers representative’??



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[John Davis]

Dean,

(Back in the day) In many tournaments, such as the Grand American, professionals/industry reps were not allowed to compete against amateurs. The pros/reps had separate events. So, you would have an Amateur Champion and a Rep Champion.

These days there is no distinction between an amateur and a pro.

[Dean Romig]

Thanks John. Prior to that distinction Harvey H. Brown won the Lorrilard Medal in 1873 but later returned it to Lewis Lorrilard, Esq. with a scathing letter to him and the officials because the field wasn’t even regarding the entrants in a competition. His robust challenge to the integrity of field and the officials may have been the reason for the change.

The below excerpt taken from Ed Muderlak’s “Parker Guns, Shooting Flying and the American Experience” pg. 309 with more history on this on pages 310 and 311.

(Thank You Ed for your exhaustive research and wonderful books.





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[Mills]

Late to the party here, but what John said. Thanks for the compliment. My goal was to add to Parker knowledge with this article.

I should have found definitions of some of these terms and had Sam do her "Get the Skinny" on them . . .

[ArtS]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Thanks John. Prior to that distinction Harvey H. Brown won the Lorrilard Medal in 1873 but later returned it to Lewis Lorrilard, Esq. with a scathing letter to him and the officials because the field wasn’t even regarding the entrants in a competition. His robust challenge to the integrity of field and the officials may have been the reason for the change.

The below excerpt taken from Ed Muderlak’s “Parker Guns, Shooting Flying and the American Experience” pg. 309 with more history on this on pages 310 and 311.

(Thank You Ed for your exhaustive research and wonderful books.





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All of this didn't show up, but the situation discussed sounds exactly like what embroiled the golf world in the early late 1800's through the early 1900,s. My guess is that the formation of the modern Olympics fostered a "purity in competition" movement. (Along with simple jealosy of how good those guys were.)

[Mills]

In writing that article, I realized I was just scratching the surface on the trap shooting world back then. It is great that we have some on this board who are real experts