Guys, do any of you have any info on Archibald Rutledge's Parker. I have read the Jim Casada collection featurings his best of stories and have a copy of Fireworks in the Peafield Corner. He mentions the Parker in his stories especially the deer hunting ones, he makes claims of 80 yard shots with buckshot (he was known to embellish a little). I have a little back ground on the parker, it was given to him in 1904 by his students at Mercersburg Academy. It had 30 inch barrels, choked Full and I am guessing a fairly open choke on the right barrel. He used the gun on all game, Deer, Turkey, Snipe, Quail, Grouse and wild Hogs. The gun was retired in 1936, his boys bought him a new Churchill double because the Parker (had become loose in the joints from use.) Rutledge used the Parker occaisonally out of nostalgia. I hav attache a couple of pics, but it is hard to make out much.
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Archibald Rutledge's Parker
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