20 gauge parker

[charlie cleveland]

i recieved the gun today it is a parker d grade 20 ga with damascus barrels 28 inch...i ve been cleaning on it and it dont look to bad..in fact i cleaned the barrels out hardly any pitting most was at theforceing cones..gun has a coupla dents in barrel really have to look close on the inside of barrels to see the one that shows on the inside..i demed the gun to be safe so i took and shot it 4 times at the dr pepper can at 70 steps i first shot the right barrel which is bored factory cly.did not put a shot in the can..shot left barrel which is full choke put 5 shot in the can have never had a 20 ga to put over 2 shot in the can.shot left barrel again only put 1 shot in can.this is more like a twenty at that distance..moved up to 40 step line and shot right barrel again it put lots of shot in the can..i never counted them but it was full of holes... i am vert pleased with this gun this gun does not kick much like my other russ jackson 20 ga does for some reason also have 20 lc smith that kicks and a lefever that kicks and i shoot same loads in all these gun and the lefever is a straight stock like this d grade parker is..i once read that a damascus barrel gun did not kick as bad as steel barrel guns..i just know that this gun s kick is a lot lighter than those 3 other guns..theres a lot of history already known about this gunwe know that the gun was ordered for a mister robert wood johnson of the johnson and johnson fame he was founder of this company we know it was ordered in 1902 and the stock was changed from pistol grip tp straight stock. we know it was sent back and right barrel was bored to cly..stock is nice on the gun but is not a fancy stock.probably not a parker stock it could be only you experts will be able to figure this out for me.. this is the gun i bought on the for sale site from jeff bonidier sorry bout the last name spelling jeff..i m well pleased with the gun..serial no of this gun was102433 one thing i noticed the trigger guard has been broken and repaired but a nice job in my opinion... will take pictures and send them to somebody to post for me...charlie