Book: Parker-America's Finest Shotgun

[Garth Gustafson]

Originally Posted by Bruce Day

The Peter Johnson book was the first book on the Parker gun. It gathered together what was known and what was understood at the time about the manufacture and it’s history. As such it was a noble effort created by a fine and well intentioned writer. Others have followed; Baer, Muderlak and Mullins et al as book writers and many others as magazine article writers. Much credit goes to Peter Johnson as the first in the line.

Each author built upon his predecessors, correcting errors and adding facts as they became known. Isn’t this how scholarship usually works ?

I think it is a real disservice and a limited view to denigrate Peter Johnson and his efforts. I think it says more about the critic than the criticized .

One thing Peter Johnson does deserve to be denigrated for is his fashion sense.