Which are yours?

[Craig Larter]

The gun that means the most to me and if I point it at a duck it dies is my HE-C grade Fox with DE stock and checkering. It came from Dana Tauber before he passed. Dana was a good friend and fellow gun collector. Dana had a premier collection of Fox guns that his family sold at Julia's Auction. I hunted the Fox almost exclusively for ducks for 4 or 5 years and have decided to retire it since I made so many memories with the gun.

[Donald McQuade]

The gun that would be the last to be sold out of my gun case is the Parker that has been my go-to grouse and woodcock gun for the last dozen or so years. It is a 1904 vintage 16 ga 0 frame DH. It has 26 inch Damascus barrels choked a light IC and Mod, with a pistol grip, splinter forend, double triggers and a skeleton butt. Every time I take in the the woods I feel like I should be wearing calf high lace up leather boots, a coat and tie and a fedora, and hunting behind a brace of Gorden setters. Whoever ordered this gun back in 1904 new what a New England upland gun should be.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Don, you had me up to the coat and tie!!

[Bill Murphy]

You're going to have to give me a couple of days to figure out my "go to" guns. For the last couple of years, I have been trying to take a different gun every time I go shooting. It has been an adventure. However, one of the "go to" guns has to be my first Parker, the VH 28 gauge #126,764 I have been shooting since 1960. It is a William Wagner gun that has never lived more than 45 miles from Wagner's store on Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC. When I first owned the gun, I didn't live more than 25 miles from the Wagner establishment.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Donald McQuade

The gun that would be the last to be sold out of my gun case is the Parker that has been my go-to grouse and woodcock gun for the last dozen or so years. It is a 1904 vintage 16 ga 0 frame DH. It has 26 inch Damascus barrels choked a light IC and Mod, with a pistol grip, splinter forend, double triggers and a skeleton butt. Every time I take in the the woods I feel like I should be wearing calf high lace up leather boots, a coat and tie and a fedora, and hunting behind a brace of Gorden setters. Whoever ordered this gun back in 1904 new what a New England upland gun should be.

Donald, my go-to grouse gun is also a 1904 DH 16 with 26” barrels…and I hunt over Gordons. I’d wear a coat and tie if Frost would paint our portraits.