what was your first parker

[Dean Romig]

My first was a borrowed 12 ga. Trojan with 28" barrels. I had it on semi-permanent loan until my friend Dave, the owner, moved to Boise and asked to have it back. That all started back in '61 and I cut my SXS teeth on that gun. I didn't shoot it very well for the first year as I was only 13 and only weighed 130 or so. After I grew into the gun so that it didn't kick me so hard every time I shot it my shooting improved quite a lot.

The first Parker I bought was an 1898 12 ga. DH with 30" Titanic barrels choked FULL/FULL. I bought it in 2000 from KTP (in the pre JD years) and had Russ Bickel fit a set of 30" IC/MOD Damascus barrels to it. Russ also re-rust-blued the Titanic barrels and properly put them back on-face. Brad Batchelder refinished the Damascus barrels and all it needs now is some new screws and it will look pretty nice. It is a great shooter and I use it often.