whats your favorite hunting gun

[Bill Murphy]

My favorite could be any Parker that I have carried behind my dogs. However, after a difficult second barrel kill on a bobwhite a few years ago, my favorite now is my little 28 gauge bored cylinder and full. The little cockbird had reached the forty yard mark and has turned around a honeysuckle thicket and was all but out of sight when I fired. My companion gave up the bird as lost, but I sent Eva into the area of the shot and she came out with a dead bird. The little VH has earned a place in the back of the truck.

[Grantham Forester]

So it has to be my favorite- My father-in-law willed it to me- a VHE 12 with 30" M&F barrels made in aprox 1929, by the serial number look-up the PGCA makes available. I passed on the Parker GHE .410 ;made in 1937 in Ilion, again as verified by the serial number look-up herein and once I priced out both 2.5" and 3" .410 bore shotshells-And I am still "on the fence" about the 1926 era AH Fox 12 AE- again, 30" M&F like the Parker VHE- mainly due to the buttstock issues-

I also shoot a Browning 20 Superposed for quail and dove, and a Browning 12 Auto-Five, mainly for water=fowling with steel shot. The Parker is my favorite shotgun for pheasants, hands down.