Sometimes life’s circumstances force us into situations where there is but one way out…
In my case, at 66 with a head of white hair, I found myself suddenly “downsized” with no “parachute” and with a couple of mortgages looming over my head. I had little chance of finding the kind of employment I had been doing all my life and I reluctantly made the decision to liquidate a few things so I could pay off my biggest mortgage and that was my home mortgage. Not knowing where my next paycheck would be coming from and needing to keep my home I sold my best (at the time) Parkers - an unfired 16 gauge Grade-1 T/A hammer gun in 99% original condition and a Bernard barreled CH that was stunning in every way. With the proceeds from those and a couple of other Parkers I paid off my home mortgage.
There are other Parkers that I have sold and for which I have, to this day, seller’s remorse, one being my little 16 gauge Lifter woodcock gun and another being a sweet little 28 gauge VHE that was always a delight to take to the grouse woods.
There will certainly be others as the years go by.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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