?what is with this barrel rib extension?

[Jerry VanHorn]

If nothing else, I would sue the pawn shop. Put a big ad in your local paper looking for the gun...WITH the explanation how it ended up in the pawn shop. I'll bet it would get their attention. What legitimate shop would pay $150 for a $4000 Parker in good conscience ? They had to know it was a fishy deal. They would have more than 4k worth of trouble if it were me. The saying.."If you dance, you pay the fiddler" comes to mind. The kid is a common thief..and as such..has proven that he lives by those rules...now come the consequences...

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Jerry VanHorn

. What legitimate shop would pay $150 for a $4000 Parker in good conscience ? .

How about a gun store paying some loser $500 for a 15k gun? The moron/thief gun store owner never entered it into his books and that's how he got burned.

The moral of this story is don't ever try to screw over an Italian.

[Dean Romig]

These instances may be the first and only times these losers got 'found out' but it is pretty well guaranteed it wasn't the first (or last) time they have done such crimes.

It is our responsibility to bring them to justice whenever we know who they are.

A good friend and high-scoring registered Skeet shooter had a pretty little Model 23 Golden Quail .410 stolen about ten years ago. The gun's serial number, coincidentally enough, is 410 so if you ever see or hear of that gun somewhere - it is a stolen gun! and needs to be returned to Bob's widow... who is also a Skeet shooter.





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[double barrel]

I would tell the sob that stole the gun that here is your opportunity to redeem yourself, you had better buy the gun at any expense or I am turning you in.

[Jim DiSpagno]

I would work this backwards. The shop selling it now would be informed it is stolen and find out who sold it to them and so on and so forth initial itgot back to the original pawn shop that bought it from the thief. Thenbring the thief in to confess or turn him over to police and BATF.

[Dean Romig]

Picture #19 is of the underside of the gun. Expand it so that the trigger guard bow is magnified and rotate it 180 degrees and you will see the two birds I spoke of.

If anyone is having trouble doing this I can post a picture of it cropped, rotated and expanded.






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[Southpaw]

This might have been mentioned earlier in a different post and is a Captain Obvious point, but does the serial number, I think 89166 match up with records. I guess that only matters if you still have that tucked somewhere to be sure. But like you the coincidence of a gun like that with that rare of a condition on dolls head, just seems to be more than coincidental.

Btw no attorney but wonder it statute of limitations has expired with no charges filed if it was that long ago. I think that sort of thing varies from state to state, but that does not seem to be the path your pursuing.

Turning the cheek is tough but definitely commend you Tom on being able to handle that. That young man I sure hope did something positive with his life or made a positive impact somewhere with that free pass you gave him.

Dean the pictures for me are hard to tell anything. It looks more like a Rorschach test. But then again I can't tell a German W from an M.

[Tom Flanigan]

Geez Dean, you are right. Those are flying birds on the trigger guard. I don’t know why I remembered them as a woodcock. It just shows that a memory can be faulty. But there is no doubt it is my gun even though I didn’t see a picture of the elk that Kevin liked so much.

The stock is just as I remembered it and especially the dents in the shield. I took a close look at the re-done checkering and saw the uneven depth on some of the diamonds. I remember exactly where they were and the pictures line up with my memory. They really annoyed me and I had planned to fix that along with the checkering on the butt. The restoration job was semi-professional at best.

If I manage to get the gun back, I’ll fix the checkering sloppiness and send the barrels to Brain. We’ll see.

Maybe Kevin would have liked the gun better if the elk was on the trigger and the birds were on the floor plate. We’ll never know.

[Keavin Nelson]

Tom,
good luck getting the gun back, I never thought my inquiry would lead down this path. Having dealt with my kids "friends" in the past and a few of their miss deeds I can understand your decision, but none of them every took a Parker, you have a big heart.

[Tom Flanigan]

I'm glad you posted that picture Keavin. I often wondered what happened to that gun. Despite being only a shooter, it was one of my favorites because of the engraving and because it was my go to gun for flooded timber duck shooting. I took a lot of woodducks with that gun. I tend to get emotionally attached to the guns I have taken a lot of game with. It wasn't a special gun but it was special to me. Thanks for your post Keavin.