Keeping in mind that we have a fine time machine at our beck and call, I would order a Parker Bros. shotgun with features and appointments from several of the most desirable eras of Parker history.
My choice would be a lifter with a straight hand grip and and splinter forend made of the richest marbled French walnut. The checkering would be a tight precise 28 LPI in the style of the Grade 5 and the forend would not be fully checkered. It would have the 1878 patented forend latch, and a skeleton steel butt plate engraved to complement the Grade 6 specially ordered engraving on the frame, lock plates and hammers. Oh, incidentally, the hammers would be of the most elaborate scuplting with that attractive extra spur above the screw. The gun would be built on the 00 frame size and would be finished off with 28" black and white Damascus barrels in 28 gauge with the names Bonasa Umbellis and Scolopax Minor woven into the matrix. It would weigh exactly 6 lbs., 5 oz. and would balance 1/2" forward of the pin. The chokes would be open and improved cylinder and the rib would sport a pair of ivory beads.... and I would hunt that gun every day of the season for the rest of my life.
Dammit... I just pinched myself and didn't feel a thing
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