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Doctor's gun and Lawyers gun---where did I read that
Unread 07-26-2018, 06:28 PM   #1
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Default Doctor's gun and Lawyers gun---where did I read that

I am literally losing my mind on this, I thought it was in Ed Muderlack's book "The Old Reliable" but that isn't it....nor is it in the Parker Story that I found.

I remember reading it in the descriptions of the various grades, but I am having trouble finding such information.

It may be in TPS and I have just missed it.
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Unread 07-26-2018, 06:57 PM   #2
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Don't spend a whole lot of time looking for it unless you can't stand not remembering where you saw it. The "doctor's gun" was nothing more than a colloquialism used in reference to the Parker D grade (grade 3) gun, since many doctors preferred and ordered them because of the nice engraving and the very affordable price. I have never heard the term "lawyer's gun" in similar use in reference to any graded Parker.
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Oh its more just me trying to remember where I read it....
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I searched the Parker Pages index on our site and found that there was an article "The Doctors Gun" by Todd Allen published in 2016
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Thanks Robin. Maybe that was it.
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I remember the reference to the “doctors gun” many years before Todd’s article.

Perhaps in Peter Johnson’s book or Larry Baer’s...





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It wasn't Johnsons. If it was Baer....I must have misplaced that book.
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Spellcheck really ruins the English language.

I noticed that it ‘corrected’ my spelling of Baer so I corrected spellcheck’s misspelling of it then I saw where spellcheck misspelled your word “misplaced”.... absolutely infuriating!





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In all honesty that could have been my fat thumbs on cell phone keyboard...but lets just go ahead and blame spell check.
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It's in The Parker Story.
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