Del Grego Refinished Guns

[Pittypatdugan]

my DelGrego 20 has soft cyanide case colors
but Asa Kelley and I bought one that was unfired 12 VH that had perfect screws that was lettered by The older DelGrego, in 1963.
It was the best example of deep cyanide tiger stripe colours that I have seen.
In 1984 went to see Otis Odom and there must have really been 1 million dollars of Parkers in his showroom. He at that time said he had sent hundreds of Parkers to the DelGrego family to refinish and upgrade.
He said most upgrades were done on small
gauges.

I wish I knew MORE about Otis but there are members that do and an article should be done on him

[edgarspencer]

I remember my dad saying Otis was the nicest man he never met. They spent hours on the phone, back when long distance was by the minute. He bought two Parkers from Otis, and several from Pete Harvey and Gary Herman.
Back when Bypass Surgery was a new thing, my dad had a quadruple and Otis called him at the Hospital, when he learned he was still there after 4 weeks. Thinking he would be home in a week, only to spend almost two weeks in the ICU, he became very depressed. Otis, Gary, and Pete all called him, and I think they were the guys most responsible for his recovery. This was 20 years before the PGCA, and I wish our organization was around back then. Dad would be 100 today.