Best Deal on a Parker in your Buying Career

[Bruce Hering]

My best deal was on a #2 frame GH Damascus, 32" from a member here. I love the gun and enjoy shooting it. Its a really nice gun

[GH-16]

I've always looked at my hunting & gun pursuits as a hobby for my enjoyment. My career was what I did to make money so I could pursue my hobbies.

On the gun end of this hobby. I consider the best purchase I've ever made was my Parker Reproduction 16/20 combo set.

I purchased the gun new in box for $4000.00 back in the mid-90's. Then when Galazans first offered their 16ga barrels I purchased & fit that set to the gun for another $1300.00 making it a three-barrel set with the 26" 20ga & the original 28" 16ga barrels both choked Q-1 Q-2 & the CSMC 28" 16ga barrels IC-Mod making it a very universal upland gun.

What really makes it special though is all the memories attached to it from the miles of carrying it back in the CRP heydays hunting with friends, all the great people I met along the way and the seven great dogs this gun shared the fields with.

The gun has a several well-earned warts on it from the years of use which reminds me that I put every one of them on it. Every time I pick the gun up, the memories of those great times come flooding back making this gun priceless to me. It was a good deal up-front money wise, but a great deal value wise to me!

[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

A 16 gauge Parker Trojan in 95% original condition but advertised as refinished and priced accordingly.

[Bill Murphy]

My first Parker is my favorite deal. A VH 28 gauge I bought on a skeet field for $130 as I recall. The longest search is an A. P. Curtis Parker try gun that I first saw as a very young man and finally pried it away from the owner probably thirty years later. The best financial deal was a near gift from a shooting friend, an AHE double trap with a long Maryland history. I said "near gift", but that was a bit of an understatement. I told the owner that the gun was worth over ten thousand dollars. He insisted that I write him a check for $2200.00. I don't know his motivation, but I have had decades of enjoyment from that gun.

[John Davis]

Almost 20 years ago I bought a DH 12 gauge off one of the internet gun sites. Bad pictures and no mention of the grade, but I could tell it had substantial engraving. Price was $400, so I bit. After receiving the gun, I ordered a letter. That revealed the gun had been ordered by a guy named Fred Kimble of Peoria, Illinois. The rest is history.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

The longest search is an A. P. Curtis Parker try gun that I first saw as a very young man and finally pried it away from the owner probably thirty years later..

Bill's A.P. Curtiss Try-Gun.


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[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Bill's A.P. Curtiss Try-Gun.


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That looks like a trapshooters fantasy gun ;-)

[charlie cleveland]

man what some good stories...my best buy was my first parker to see it was in a gun shop it was a ph 10 ga with 32 inch barrels...750 dollars it has taken many turkeys and deer.......charlie

[Robert Brooks]

I saw a BHE 20 with 28 inch barrels listed in a local classified Athens and contacted seller and met him same day Closed the deal and owned it next day! I cannot seem to hold on to high grade guns long and sold it in a couple of weeks for nice profit. Bobby

[Mills]

I have a GH 16 I got for $255 and is all there. A case of looking worse in the online photos than it is in real life