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Originally Posted by Greg Baehman
David Trevallion, one of the more experienced and accomplished stock makers of our time wrote this: "Parker Reproduction guns are in every respect - equal to - or superior to the originals."
Maybe, just maybe, the above quote authored by Trevallion in the Jan/Feb 2019 issue of Shooting Sportsman Magazine may help you to understand.
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Yeah, I've read all that before and my previous comments and the ones that follow have nothing to do with the quality of the Repros. I'll also preface the following with an admission that I have never shot, let alone hunted, an actual Parker 28 ga, but I have hunted several original (real) Parkers in 16 and 20 as well as repros in 16, 20, and 28 and for whatever reason, repros just feel different to me and because repros don't have 100-years of wear, they don't look the same either.. I'm sure it's psychological, but they don't feel like real Parkers to me.
I can understand the desire to own a 28 repro, if for no other reason than they are a good value for a 28 ga and they will hold that value compared to guns from Spain, Italy, Turkey or Japan, but I can't see spending $4,500 on a 20 ga Repro when I can get a nice, original VH for the same (or less) money, especially a Repro with short barrels, single trigger, and a pg.
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