Parker factory Kautzky Triggers

[Bruce Day]

Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop

A quick search for the name Kautzky in the archived research letter database didn't turn up any hits.

If anyone has S/N's of guns they think have a Kautzky single trigger, let me know and I'll see if we have an order for the gun. Also, if you could give me a date range of when a gun may have been sent to Kautzky, I can look at the index at the beginning of the order books. Would the correct name be: Kautzky's Sporting Goods, Ft. Dodge IA?

Chuck, that is the correct name. They were in business from around 1910 to the 1970's. My grandfather's P 16 was bought used from them.....of course to me they were old fashioned guns at the time and those Auto 5's were the desired thing to have.

Kevin, Kautzky's front windows were southern exposure and I don't remember them having much for window displays, but inside the store were fascinating displays from the various manufacturers with all the advertising incidentals and racks that are so sought after today. But the store went the way of many downtowns....when the new Crossroads shopping center was built, stores started moving out and the big box stores came in, and all these neat little shops with oak counters and ladders to get to the high goods were gone. At Kautzky's you could still buy new near Parkers in the 50's and I don't doubt that Rudy had some still tucked away in boxes.

Jim, Sac City ( named after the Sac indians) was a RAGBRAI town in 2012. This year its a southern route and I'm riding on the USAF team again. Want to bike across Iowa sometime ?

[Bill Murphy]

I have seen Kautsky orders for Parkers, but I assume they were just store stock. Marie's single barrel Parker is apparently not known by serial number.

[Researcher]

There is an aricle on the Kautzky family in the Winter 1963 issue of The Iowan by John Kautzky. It includes a picture of Joe Sr. holding a vent ribbed Parker Bros. double and a couple of Marie with her Parker single. From Dick Baldwin's wonderful book The Road to Yesterday, Marie never "won the GAH", she was High Lady in 1928, Third High Lady in 1929, Ladies' Clay Target Champion 1941. In 1928 the GAH was won by Ike Andrews, 1929 by Mose Newman with an Ithaca, and 1940 by E.H. Wolfe.

Joseph Kautzky's first single trigger patent drawing, Patent No. 827,242 granted July 31, 1906, shows it on a Parker Bros. Joe's Patent No. 990,562 granted April, 25, 1911, and Patent No.1,109,632 granted September 1, 1914, show his single trigger on an Ansley H. Fox action.

[Jim Thynne]

I found it under Marie Kautzky. It was her maiden name.

[Twice Shooter]

Hi Jim, Good to hear from you.

Tom

[Hammer Gun]

Any body got a picture of one of these triggers installed?

[charlie cleveland]

hope you boys turn up a picture and serial no of one of these triggers on a parker... i sure would liked to have seen those little stores and the big ones with their hunting and fishing displays... charlie

[Fishtail]

I think a few years ago on this site I posted something about Marie Kautzky, either a photo or an article.

I'm not saying Parker never used a Kautzky trigger but I'd need to see some proof before I considered it valid. The testimony of Marie is not proof, just some evidence which may or may not be factual. She might have been mistaken or misunderstood what was gong on back then.

[Jim Thynne]

You may be correct. She was quite elderly when the artical was written. Then again Parker didn't have the single trigger until after 1914 (I THINK)

[Bruce Day]

I'd be interested in a Parker with a Kautzky trigger.

Marie and my grandmother were friends as well as related by marriage.