The U.S. Cartridge Company 24 gauge Parker pictured in The Parker Story belonged to my fellow gun club member, Bob Hess. When I went to a friend's home in McLean, VA years ago to pick up Bob Hess' 20 gauge skeet gun after his death, I found a wooden Remington crate with 20 boxes of 24 gauge for the Parker. My friend had decided to add them to his collection and would not sell them to me. The 24 gauge Parker was already sold. The only guns I bought from Bob Hess' collection were the cased 20 gauge VHE skeet, and a very early mint solid rib Browning Superposed 3" gun. To this day, I don't own a box of 24 gauge Remingtons. The famous collector and hunter, Fred Davis, had the Browning in his store in Falls Church on consignment. I expressed interest in it, not knowing it was my friend Bob's gun. Fred told me I could buy it cheaper if I contacted the seller directly and gave me the phone number of my friend who was handling Bob's estate guns. What a great guy Fred Davis was.
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