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Hi Unregistered,
On July 29th, this site will be moving..! No, really - it's "moving" to another physical location - including servers, gateways, routers - everything - including my coffee cup...
So, from the date of July 29th through July 30 or 31 (shooting for these dates, but - as always, I'm at the mercy of my ISP who has to install the lines to the new location - and we actually get them running ;) ). But - this site, cloud servers and main web will be OFF LINE.
Now, please save these dates!! Please - don't be "that guy" who emails me on the 30th to tell me you "can't open the Parker Website". I'll already know it is offline - and also know that you are "that guy"...
I'll take this notice up and down over the next week or so - and leave it up during the final few days before shutting it off on the 29th..
John D.
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Favorite gun for "bird hunting" here in the South (read bobwhite quail) is a 20 gauge that weighs 6 lbs and a few ounces. I do prefer 28" or 30" barrels. I own a few bird guns. A nice 1911 DHE 20 w/ 28" barrels that is factory choked C/M. A sweet 1905 BHE 20 w/ 30" barrels factory choked C/M. And I have a 1935 VHE 20 Skeet gun w/26" barrels. All three are straight stocked guns. Having said all of that I wouldn't hesitate to take either of my two M/F twenties if worse came to worse. I grew up hunting a lot of modified choked Brownings and a modified choked Winchester. Shot a lot of quail with that choke, as well as dove and rabbits too.
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12-28-2021, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Reggie Bishop
Favorite gun for "bird hunting" here in the South (read bobwhite quail) is a 20 gauge that weighs 6 lbs and a few ounces. I do prefer 28" or 30" barrels. I own a few bird guns. A nice 1911 DHE 20 w/ 28" barrels that is factory choked C/M. A sweet 1905 BHE 20 w/ 30" barrels factory choked C/M. And I have a 1935 VHE 20 Skeet gun w/26" barrels. All three are straight stocked guns. Having said all of that I wouldn't hesitate to take either of my two M/F twenties if worse came to worse. I grew up hunting a lot of modified choked Brownings and a modified choked Winchester. Shot a lot of quail with that choke, as well as dove and rabbits too.
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Wow! What a bevy (okay, bad pun) of nice "bird" guns. That C/M choking is also just the right pairing for Bobs in my estimation, but as you know, a nice Parker BHE 20 with F/F chokes and spreader loads will take birds on the edge of the prairie.
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