What did you add to your Parker Collection in 2016??

[Bill Murphy]

Larry, I think I saw your great Midas on another forum, but I may be mistaken. My prewar Midas Trap is # 4868. What is your serial number? What other details can you tell us. Maybe you could show us the back end and the forend. If there ever was a classic over under, this is it.

[Big Friend Ten (BFT)]

I've been busy catching up on the days of my youth. Half my lifetime ago life got in my way. Duty called and I hung up my competitive rifle and pistol shooting when I became an officer in the Marines. At the time I was Distinguished with the Service Rifle and had earned 22 of the required 30 points to become a Distinguished Pistol Shot. Heck I was a rifle shooter and shot pistol to prove that anyone could do it. There was of course a rivalry between the USMC Rifle and Pistol Teams. The year was 1988.

In the spring 2015 a Les Baer National Match followed me home and I shot and shot and shot into 150 yards of topsoil serving as a berm in my back field. At the 2015 National Matches at Camp Perry I was close to placing but no cigar for me. It wasn't the Baer's fault but it was to become my backup gun.

On Perry's famous Commercial Row I ordered an Accuracy X Pro Plus 1911. It was July 2015. These target pistols are guaranteed 2" of smaller group guns at 50 yards. The 10 ring for the National Match Course is 3 & 1/4" with slow fire shot at 50 yards after timed and rapid fire strings at the 25 yard line. Steve Huff of Accuracy X hand fits the CNC match grade parts for these guns. Also, Steve can flat out shoot rifle and pistol being the only 6-Discipline Distinguished shooter ever. Steve knows target guns like many of you know Parkers.

My Accuracy X arrived late May 2016, about six weeks before the Nationals. By Perry I had logged in over 1800 rounds through this gun and my scores reflected it. For the National Trophy Individual I didn't win the match but I placed Third Gold with 277-3X (out of 300), just below a USMC Pistol Team and a Army Marksmanship Unit shooters also striving to "go out" (Distinguished). I was in good company.

So to start in my non-Parkers, 150 yards of topsoil bought during 2015 and 16, a top of the line match 1911, and did I mention I needed special prescription shooting glasses so that I could focus on the front sight? Bullseye shooting was so much easier half my lifetime ago...

[Big Friend Ten (BFT)]

I will shoot the National Pistol Matches at Camp Perry in 2017. But at the 2016 Nationals, watching my fellow Marines, albeit so a few decades younger than me, shoot their match Service Rifles, my heart longed to one again return to the mastery of the art of long range shooting. Did I mention that Steve Huff of Accuracy X builds target and sporting rifles for Delta Force types?

While I really don't want to shoot "across the course" I had another thought. Oh, the course is the National Match Course for Service Rifle being 20 shots offhand at 200 yards, one string of standing to sitting rapid fire at 200, another string of standing to prone at 300, and 20 shots slow fire prone at 600 yards. That makes for a long day on my beat up body when one adds pulling butts. That's keeping score for other relays by being behind the 600 yard berm and pulling the 8' x 8' steel target frame down, scoring, and then pulling it up for the next shot. Fun 30 years ago but maybe not now.

My idea was to build a dual purpose long range gun. That's something competitive enough to make a good showing in 1000 yard matches that would also be light enough for antelope and other long range hunting. Leave it to Mr. Huff to pull it together!

Below is my new, paid for and in the mail, Accuracy X "X Series" 6.5 x 284 Norma with a 28" medium Palma contour barrel, Timney trigger, full aluminum bedded (sinfully ugly) stock, all build on the proprietary Accuracy X action.

For this tack driver I ordered for two scopes, Night Force 15-55 Competition, and for hunting a Night Force 5-20 SHV. On order are two LaRue Tactical Quick Detachable Scope Mounts. These will come off and go one the rifle again and remain within an MOA. The mount shown in the photo is not a LaRue and is much too high.

Steve Hoff of Accuracy X just sent the test target below shot with factory ammo. Hopefully I will be able to squeeze the group done a little.

[Researcher]

Larry,

Don't show us anything more until Bill posts pictures of his Midas!!

[Double Play]

Certainly not a Parker but they do have Damascus barrels and mullerd boarders. This cased pair of JN Jones & Sons dueling pistols are another neat conversation piece for the gun room.

[OH Osthaus]

oh - my

gold washed pans, are those rollers in the frizzens?
and still together and cased

FANTASTIC

[Double Play]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

oh - my

gold washed pans, are those rollers in the frizzens?
and still together and cased

FANTASTIC

Rick,
Not sure what "rollers in the frizzens" means but it did come with extra flint and the tool to makes more balls should I ever decide to make so noise.

[Phil Yearout]

Originally Posted by Larry Frey

...Not sure what "rollers in the frizzens" means...

Sounds like the incantation from The Wizard of Id to me..."Frammin' at the jim-jam, frippin' in the krotz."

[OH Osthaus]

the toe of the frizzen either rides on the flat of that V spring or on a "roller" - a bearing which makes the action a little smoother

in this example the roller is on the spring - it can be in the toe of the frizzen as well



other wise a hard polished toe of the frizzen rides on the flat of the spring- also polished

[Roundsworth]

I just added a Westley Richards center hammer Rook Rifle. It is a 297/250.