New DHE Trap Gun

[Tom Flanigan]

I just bought the highest condition Parker I have ever purchased. It is a 1928 DHE trap gun and is a true closet gun with all the extras except for monte carlo. I bought the gun for my great friend Mark. He shoots trap with me every week and he needed a trap gun. He was shooting my field PH, a high condition gun in its own right.

I have known Mark since he was born. His family owns a large farm that I have hunted on since I was a kid. I was very close with his grandfather and father, both deceased. The property is contiguous to Governor Dewey’s farm and his grandfather ran Dapplemere farm for Dewey and was one of his closest friends. Dewey loved his Pawling farm and lived there until he died of a heart attack in 1981. I gave Mark’s father a Parker and Mark now has it.

Mark and I will be planting the farm this year with sorghum for the pheasants. We’ll plow, disc and seed in May.