Bob, you are very right that the Del Gregos and Bob Runge did not attempt to pass off their upgrades as original. However, many field guns of lower grades, VHE to DHE, maybe higher, were passed off as skeet guns with remarked "Skeet In and Skeet Out" choke markings, and not signed. This is not a criticism of my friends, the Del Gregos, that was just the way it was, work performed by talented gunsmiths for paying customers. The postscript to my post is that the PGCA Research Committee's trip to Ilion in 1998 did not help to bring these remarked skeet guns to the surface, because an optioned 26" field gun doesn't look any different from a skeet gun in the stock books or most IBM cards. In years to come, some of these modified guns will be as important to Parker collectors as original unmodified guns.
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