Opinions - True/Best Definition of Parker Skeet Gun?

[Reggie B]

Here is mine -

20 VHE
Flats marked skeet choked
Single trigger
Checkered butt
Straight stock
Beaver tail

It’s a sweet one! Pictured with a 16 gauge skeet.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Reggie Bishop

Here is mine -

20 VHE
Flats marked skeet choked
Single trigger
Checkered butt
Straight stock
Beaver tail

It’s a sweet one! Pictured with a 16 gauge skeet.

Reggie at the risk of being nosey , did you acquire that one at auction in the last 14 or so months ? I kinda went after one at a CT Firearms Auction in October of 2020 . Was wondering if this were the same gun ?

[Reggie B]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

Reggie at the risk of being nosey , did you acquire that one at auction in the last 14 or so months ? I kinda went after one at a CT Firearms Auction in October of 2020 . Was wondering if this were the same gun ?

This gun came out of an estate. Gun was supposedly bought new by a family member. It comes as close to being an unfired gun as I have ever owned.

[Bill Murphy]

My recently acquired 28 has 28" cylinder and cylinder bores. It is a very late, May 1939 gun that was apparently made at a time when proper skeet bores had been established, unlike earlier times when a lot of choke was thought most efficient. The chokes are not marked on my gun, probably because they are not skeet in and out chokes. However, proper skeet features are present, checkered butt, non automatic safety, twin ivory sights. I acquired my .410 from the original family, who had never seen a skeet field. It was a working quail gun from northern Virginia and shows its use in the field. My 20 is also from northern Virginia, but was used on the skeet field by Remington guy, Bob Hess, who was an NSSA competitor. Bob was the guy mentioned in some Parker literature as the person who outed the rare 24 gauge Parker. I hadn't thought of the fact that all three of my Parker skeet guns came from Virginia. I shot on the International Skeet circuit with Colonel John Hess, who one night at dinner told me about his dad's great little 20 gauge Parker skeet gun. I choked on my food before admitting to the Colonel that his dad's Parker was safe at home in my gun room.

[Dean Weber]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

My recently acquired 28 has 28" cylinder and cylinder bores. It is a very late, May 1939 gun that was apparently made at a time when proper skeet bores had been established, unlike earlier times when a lot of choke was thought most efficient. The chokes are not marked on my gun, probably because they are not skeet in and out chokes. However, proper skeet features are present, checkered butt, non automatic safety, twin ivory sights. I acquired my .410 from the original family, who had never seen a skeet field. It was a working quail gun from northern Virginia and shows its use in the field. My 20 is also from northern Virginia, but was used on the skeet field by Remington guy, Bob Hess, who was an NSSA competitor. Bob was the guy mentioned in some Parker literature as the person who outed the rare 24 gauge Parker. I hadn't thought of the fact that all three of my Parker skeet guns came from Virginia. I shot on the International Skeet circuit with Colonel John Hess, who one night at dinner told me about his dad's great little 20 gauge Parker skeet gun. I choked on my food before admitting to the Colonel that his dad's Parker was safe at home in my gun room.

Bill,
By your comments, can I conclude your opinion to be a checkered butt for less than grade 3, twin beads, and non-auto safety are requirements for a Parker skeet gun? Also, you do not believe choke markings are a requirement?
Thank you for your viewpoint.