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Unread 02-26-2017, 11:51 AM   #1
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Love those turnips on your gun Dean. Personally I like them better than a good duck. Was one engraver responsible for them or is that unknown?
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Love those turnips on your gun Dean. Personally I like them better than a good duck. Was one engraver responsible for them or is that unknown?
I really can't say Calvin. I don't think I have ever seen a really good or lifelike representation of a duck on a Grade 3 or Grade 2 Parker hammerless gun. So I guess you could say that all of them had their own idea of what a duck looks like and did the best that they could. I love the turnips on my DHE 16 too. They represent a classic time in Parker Bros. history and the engraver's art of the day.






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Dean, those "Turnips" might actually be ancient spacecraft, that came to Earth to build the Pyramids.
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The turnip motif was undoubtedly engraved by a vegetarian maybe even a vegan

What I don't understand is the big game animals on grade 4 and up. An Elk no matter how well done is out of place on a shotgun. I have never seen birds engraved on the floor plate of a rifle
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Good thing the engraver is passed or he might put a boot in your... for calling him that. I like the elk gives Parker that mystique, and you can shoot elk with elk shot. Never been a fan of engraving on a bolt gun.
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Never been a fan of engraving on a bolt gun.
To each his own but I think this is classy. The rifle is a custom job built on a Mauser action in 275 Rigby.
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More Turnips or some other type of flying vegetable. A DH 32 inch safety less straight grip 12. The top one almost resembles a goose.
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please show all Mr. COB aka Uncle Rich
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Ok Chuck. This gun has managed to retain a lot of original color. It had a Pachmayr pad that I replaced with a Silvers. A clays killer for sure, DH 32inch no safety flat rib 12 on a #2 frame.
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