I had already graduated into hunting with SxS guns, 30 plus years back, but my hunting partner had a Parker. With this in the back of my mind, I ran accross a table at a gun show, maybe 25 years ago, a young man was selling off his recently deceased grandfather's collection of assorted and sundry stuff, and lo and behold, there's a Parker on the table. This was mostly a black rifle type show, so the Parker was not getting much attention. I picked it up and noted it was Damascus BBL'd. When I asked the young man if he was aware that it was Damascus, he said "just give me $250.00 and it's yours".
Okay. Now I owned my first Parker, which turned out to be a beautiful, unmolested GH 12 ga from the late 1880s. I was clueless, but my hunting partner told me I did okay.
BTW, I still have that gun.
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