My first association with a Parker was when I was twelve or thirteen in '60 or '61. It was a 12 gauge Trojan I found in my friend's cellar. I asked his father if I could borrow it and use it to hunt pheasants around the fields and woods bordering my property. I was allowed to keep that gun until I moved to a different town in the spring of '64. I have some wonderful memories of hunting with that Trojan. I shot my only double on woodcock with it in '63.
I wrote a story about my adventures with that Trojan in Parker pages, "A Last Trojan Pheasant" but I'll be darned if I can find it in the Parker Pages online index.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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