Now thats a cool Parkers , I love the #4 #5 and #6 frame guns doesnt matter if its a hammer or hammerless gun or what the grade is . The hunters that were using these in their heyday were pretty dedicated to the hunt .
I havnt fund much information on American waterfowlers from that time period but I have on English wildfowlers who used similar large doubles .
A interview I watched with a old fellow was talking about his friends dad was a old school wildfowler. And back in those days a good source of meat/protein was not readily available , and having a large waterfowling gun could make the difference between your 9 kids having rickets or not . He also said back then with such a gun a market hunter could make a week and a halfs wages in a single day of fowling . So by comparisons the higher cost of large guns wasnt exactly that expensive for someone using it for a living .
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