Curiouse ?

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

Some 25 or more years ago Clark Brothers gunshop in Warrenton, VA had a 40-inch barreled 12 ga. Parker (forget the grade but it was at least a D, maybe a C). The gun was purported to have been made for Walter Chrysler. The stock had a most curious, perfectly round, circular depression in one side just about the size and shape of a shooting marble. It came to be referred to as the "melon ball" gun, since it looked like someone had scooped out the sphere of wood similar to the way one would a melon. The gun eventually sold after languishing for weeks in the shop; I have no idea who purchased it or where it wound up.

My pop used to work with a fellow named Jerry Amos about 30 years ago and Amos collected Parker and Fox guns . John Clark would call Amos anytime he got something in before it came out of the back room . Anyway I remember Amos telling me about a 32 or 34 inch 20 gauge Parker they had . Think it stayed there two days before it headed south to Chadicks .