Parker versus turkey

[Elk Hunter]

I was looking at old photos and found this picture of one of my Parker hammer guns and a Miriams Turkey that I got in 1988 in North Central Oregon. An Alcan brass 12 gauge case loaded with 90 grains of Dupont ff-g black powder, Alcan 11 gauge wads and 1 1/4 oz of #5 shot.

The combination seemed to work.

[charlie cleveland]

mighty nice...always wanted to get a turkey with a muzzle loader but ain t done it yet...charlie

[charlie cleveland]

excuce me for thinking you had killed this with a muzzle loader..i too have took a few turkey with hammer parkers..anyway a nice job well done with a great gun...are you still turkey hunting...charlie

[Elk Hunter]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

excuce me for thinking you had killed this with a muzzle loader..i too have took a few turkey with hammer parkers..anyway a nice job well done with a great gun...are you still turkey hunting...charlie

Charlie,

I would love to take a turkey with one of my muzzleloaders but, haven't made the effort so far. The few I have taken have all been with black powder in brass cases. The wife and I haven't been turkey hunting for several years but do want to get back to it. Where we live there are few turkeys, that is unless you count the non-feathered ones. We have to drive a minimum of two to four hours to get to an area that has a reasonable population.

[Dean Romig]

Yes, that's what a lot of us do these days. No more walking out the back door and dropping a couple of shells in the ol' Parker. Too many people... too many houses where fields and woodlots used to be when we were young. I drive 3 hours to get to heaven and that's not a long drive when you consider what's waiting on the other end.

[charlie cleveland]

i still can drop a coupla shells in the old parker 8 ga andslip out the back door or the front...but that will change someday when the new 4 lane comes by my house..i got saved they run out of money don not think it will get built in my life time now...charlie...

[Allan McLane]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

... No more walking out the back door and dropping a couple of shells in the ol' Parker.

I my case it's a 30" FC Model 12 but that turkey flock in the snow angel photo lives in my dooryard. I think Edgar wishes a pox on his dooryard birds!

[Mike Franzen]

I feel very fortunate I can still drop a couple in the Parker and walk out my back door and go hunting

[chris dawe]

I can hunt out the door as well ,but it's closing in every day ...if I didn't live on three generations of property I would be out of here ,(winter makes it even more so )

[Hammer Gun]

Well, I am fortunate enough to live where they still walk thru the yard along with a few bears and other critters, my neighbor is a ways away and do not see any development in the future since I border the National Park Service land for about 1/2 mile, looking forward to the late spring hunt of the wood boring bee, with my H&R 22 cal loaded with snake shot, nine shots at the pesky critters and it is fun, There is something to be said when a man can go out in his front yard and take a pee without someone bitching about it, Well the old lady raises hell with me for doing it , but what the hell you only go around once, Gary