Plymouth Jake

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The Parker is a 16 ga. VH. ser# 221866 (1927) Purchased by my grandfather in Boston, Ma. In 1939 and while shooting hand trap on his farm (second home) in Bow, NH with his older sons, the recoil of this Parker struck his nose causing internal bleeding. He went home to Dedham, Ma with a headache and was dead by next morning of a cerebral hemmorage. The 16' passed to his youngest son, my father, who hunted with it until he was no longer able to hunt having contracted ALS. After my Dad's passing, I inherited it. About 7 years ago, I had DelGrego's rebuild it with new wood, and case colors by Turnbull. My grandfather had ordered this gun (so I was told by my Dad) with extreme drop and a very short LOP. By the time I had inherited it, the wood was beyond recovery, case colors were virtually non existent, one barrel had a dent in it. It needed and cried out for a rebuild if I was going to shoot it and hand it down to Logan, my oldest grandson and who was accompanying me this morning when I shot the bearded female that I had believed was young Tom (Jake) in the picture above. We've come full circle with this gun and it's ready for the next generation.