Has the market for average Parkers bottomed???

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by todd allen

I think ideally, all young sportsmen should start out with time spent looking at a campfire in the outdoors, with the cold at your back....

....listening, with the firelight on their eager faces, to the stories their Dads and Granddads tell about their times in the outdoors and passing along information that is as useful today as it was in the "Old Days."






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[todd allen]

This gun had almost mythical power in my childhood. Grandpa protected the chicken coop with it.
I shot a couple of doves with it last year, btw.
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[Andy]

Originally Posted by Phil Yearout

There are fewer and fewer of us old f*rts, and most of the "new" hunters (at least the ones I see) seem to be into "faster, higher, farther"; that could explain a down market for good, shootable guns.

I'm very new to Parkers (28g repro). Thank God there are people left who appreciate aesthetics and grace. I think this can be taught to some extent so its' upon each of us to show someone else what a beautiful gun feels like. We'll have to face the fact that maybe we're weirdo's who prefer to carry Leica's, fish with bamboo and shoot very old expensive guns. I'm not an old fart (at least yet...) but I'm looking forward to another (real) Parker someday. Don't we see the same thing with cars? Some have soul, some just don't. Usually the ones without soul are the new ones. To some, a car is a tool. Same with a gun. Life is short, do what makes your heart smile.

[BRDHNTR]

Depends on the state of the economy in part and user/collector demand.

[Kensal Rise]

Originally Posted by Andrew Sacco

...Don't we see the same thing with cars? Some have soul, some just don't. Usually the ones without soul are the new ones. To some, a car is a tool. Same with a gun. Life is short, do what makes your heart smile.

You're right about cars and "soul." But sorry. NOTHING in today's automotive market has any soul. Orange juice colour or not.

[Andy]

Love that Jaguar.... I'm a Porsche fanatic, always have been. The newer ones lose a little of their magic for me but the DNA comes through. I always get the question: "Why not just buy a WRX, just as fast, for less money..." The same reason I don't eat at a buffet.

[Victor Wasylyna]

Originally Posted by Andrew Sacco

We'll have to face the fact that maybe we're weirdo's who prefer to carry Leica's, fish with bamboo and shoot very old expensive guns.

Andy:

You are going to fit right in here at the PGCA.

-Victor

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Victor Wasylyna

Andy:

You are going to fit right in here at the PGCA.

-Victor

That's what I'm afraid of...

[John Davis]

I have found that when I'm buying, it's a seller's market. And when I'm selling, it's a buyer's market. Which of course goes hand in hand with my business philosophy of "Buy high and Sell low".

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by John Davis

my business philosophy of "Buy high and Sell low".

as an old friend used to say

Buy high, sell low, and make it up in volume