What Horror Is This?

[Joe from MO]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

If you're spending $1500.00 on a Parker without knowing what you are doing, you had better have a serious Parker student standing next to you, unless you are willing to chance a $1300.00 mistake. You should not spend $5.00 on a Parker without knowing what you are doing.

I feel I know enough about what I am looking at, to feel comfortable spending up to that price on a gun. I did talk to some other people about the gun, had them check it out, and it all matched the books, etc. I had 3 days to look it over, and it was as I expected, actually a little bit nicer than I expected.

I would never spend more than that without first having the gun in hand, or a solid inspection period, etc.

I have bought a couple guns that were considerably less than $1500, and ended being a lot nicer than the price I paid. A 16ga Philly Fox comes to mind... If I make a mistake, that's on me, but I know that going in. Everybody has that price point where it becomes high enough to warrant a more thorough examination than just some pics on the web.... And for some guys it might be $5000, for others $200.....

I am not a serious collector, and buy guns I plan to use in the field.... So, spending a huge sum of money for a collector grade & condition gun has no interest to me. I would love to have guns like that, but not for the amount of money they usually require to own... Probably why I don't own a 28 or even a 20ga Parker right now.