The Sporting Clays Classic

[todd allen]

The world of side by sides is definitely a small world!

[Wilmurt]

A Parker SCC has been posted for sale on GI, #102578928. Robin Hollow Outfitters is the seller.

[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by Tom Jay

A Parker SCC has been posted for sale on GI, #102578928. Robin Hollow Outfitters is the seller.

Purchasing a Sporting Clays Classic, like that one or one similar to it, will cause those that know the capability of this model to be saying…

"Beware the Man with One Gun"

(Dbl. wink!)

[Bill Murphy]

At the risk of alienating many of our posters, let me suggest that the quote about "one gun" refers to one gun without screw chokes or three sets of barrels. Just my humble opinion. Of course, I'm the guy whose solution to every problem with guns, chokes, or ammunition is "Learn to shoot."

[tom tutwiler]

Quick story on Ed. I was in a small gunshop in Leesburg Va many years ago and I believe the name was Nimrod. It had a bunch of high end doubles. Most from Europe and England as I recall, but a few Parkers and other things. I had just come back from Germany so the year must have been about 1989. Anyway, I walked in and the owner was with a gentleman and they were both looking at a vintage book. I asked if I could look around and the owner said sure. Anyway, poking around and there was a pile of books on one table and they were all Ed's book "Old Reliable". I was not a Parker guy at the time, but I certainly knew of Parker shotguns. Picked up the book and looked at the back cover and of course there was Ed's picture. I looked at for a few minutes and thought I know that guy and was trying to figure out from where.

Looked back at the front where the owner and Ed were talking and suddenly realized that the fellow on the back cover was sitting right there. Anyway, waited until their was a break in the conversation and slid up there and asked if he indeed was the fellow on the back cover and he said yes. Anyway, I bought the book and was about to leave the store and he stopped me and asked me if I wanted him to autograph the book and I said sure. Still have it of course on the bookshelf. Pretty neat story.

[Bill Murphy]

Ed's son, or was it his son in law, lived right outside of Leesburg, east of town off Route 15. Ed spent a bit of time there. The Nimrod was a fun little store, long gone now.

[Wilmurt]

Check out Robin Hollow’s inventory. They have my SCC for sale and it does not have flared muzzles.

[David C Porter]

The barrels are not swaged, they are machined that way to give more thickness for the choke tubes & keep down barrel weight. Where thin choke tubes are the only way to install choke tubes in normal choked barrels. The factory choke tube barrels are more robust & safer (dings & barrel damage from dropping) than thin choke tubes. Some choke tube barrels are machined with a straight taper & some with a slight bell. I've had both Thin & factory. Personally, I'd rather have the more robust factory choke tube barrel.

[Bill Murphy]

I wish I could give Daryl more than one "thanks" for his last two posts. He tells it like it is. The flares are not in our imagination and some shooters can't stand them. Further, the gun in question at $7995 is two thousand dollars more than a similar Repro without chokes, a heck of a surcharge for choke tubes. Briley does the whole job with chokes for $549, less with dealer discount. In addition, it seems like the seller can't make up his mind about a gun that our posters say "has a slight flare" and describes the barrels in his ad as "dead straight". Which is it?

[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

I wish I could give Daryl more than one "thanks" for his last two posts. He tells it like it is. The flares are not in our imagination and some shooters can't stand them. Further, the gun in question at $7995 is two thousand dollars more than a similar Repro without chokes, a heck of a surcharge for choke tubes. Briley does the whole job with chokes for $549, less with dealer discount. In addition, it seems like the seller can't make up his mind about a gun that our posters say "has a slight flare" and describes the barrels in his ad as "dead straight". Which is it?

With the above post filled with so much naivety, one wonders where to start? So, I'll start with this:

It bears repeating that you are not comparing apples to apples. You cannnot compare the dramatic swell, flare or bulging, or whatever you choose to call it, of Perazzi, Krieghoff and a host of other manufacturers barrels to the slight flare of the Sporting Clays Classic. They are very different in appearance. You, yourself Bill, commented in post #13 of this thread: "The pictured SCC is very nice with no apparent flare. I would love to add that gun to my Repro collection."

RE: The asking price of the listed gun being two grand more than a similar Repro. Why does one gun command a higher price than another? Listed below are a few reasons, you may have others...
* Versatility -- apparently it doesn't to you, but to others it might be a big deal.
* Condition -- apparently it doesn't to you, but to others it might be a big deal.
* Rarity -- apparently it doesn't to you, but to others it might be a big deal.
* Quality of wood -- apparently it doesn't to you, but to others it might be a big deal.
* Dimensions -- apparently it doesn't to you, but to others it might be a big deal.

One has to wonder why Daryl would purchase that beautiful Perazzi MX28 in the first place if he couldn't stand looking at them due to the flared muzzles?

As to the seller of the GI listed SCC changing his wording from "Barrels are dead straight, with no flare out for the tubes." to "Barrels appear to be dead straight." My take on that is that he was totally unaware and couldn't believe there was/is a slight flare after it was pointed out to him via his own photo. So, he edited his listing. I guess he can now play dumb by using the word "appear" if someone should question his listing.

If you're that anal about the slight flare to a SCC's muzzles, you best keep the SCC in your "did not buy" bucket o' guns.