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Hi Unregistered,
On July 29th, this site will be moving..! No, really - it's "moving" to another physical location - including servers, gateways, routers - everything - including my coffee cup...
So, from the date of July 29th through July 30 or 31 (shooting for these dates, but - as always, I'm at the mercy of my ISP who has to install the lines to the new location - and we actually get them running ;) ). But - this site, cloud servers and main web will be OFF LINE.
Now, please save these dates!! Please - don't be "that guy" who emails me on the 30th to tell me you "can't open the Parker Website". I'll already know it is offline - and also know that you are "that guy"...
I'll take this notice up and down over the next week or so - and leave it up during the final few days before shutting it off on the 29th..
John D.
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09-26-2016, 10:09 AM
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With four grandsons I thought the guns would go to homes that would use them. I'm beginning to seriously doubt it. One wanted a rifle to hunt deer etc for his 14th birthday. I offered him a sporterized 6.5X55 Swedish Mauser with a 2X7 Leuopold. I told him I had 85 grain bullet loads at over 3,000 per second that shoot 1/2" groups all day long for groundhogs, a 129 grain bullet for deer that is sub minute of angle load as well as a 160 gr load. He wasn't the least bit impressed or excited of such prospects. He wanted a new .308 so I purchased a savage for him to use until he was 18 and then it would be his. Other guns I cherish for function and sentiment wouldn't get a second look from the boys. I am seriously thinking of thinning out a few more closets.
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09-26-2016, 10:15 AM
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There no love for the classic rifle cartridges (or a Parker, Fox ect) by todays youth. That 6.5X55 is an excellent round and if I were to have another rifle built that would be a strong consideration. There's no dust on that or a 250 Savage, 300 Savage, 257 Roberts or the tried and true 7X57.
At the end of the day were just getting old 
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter...Earnest Hemingway
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