Has the market for average Parkers bottomed???

[Woodcock survey]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

IMO that's the kind of attitude we should be discouraging in young folks.

I think we were all raised with a respect for the game we hunt and to be ethical in all matters. Ethical means doing the right thing, even when nobody's looking.

A lot of people see game animals and birds in an adversarial combatant vein rather than as an element in our heritage to be respected.





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At the age of 14 I bought A5 with the money I made mowing lawns ( 110.00) Pheasant hunting with my dad the dog put up a bird and I fired all 5 before it was 30 yards away, The Old Man moved the pipe to the other side cocked the hammer on the H&R 16 single, looked at me, then killed it stone dead. He would not let the dog retrieve but told me to take off my boots and wade out and get it. Then he swapped guns with me and I did not get my hands on it for 1 year. In the same field we jumped a rabbit and I let it go about 35 to 40 yards and shot it, with out a word he handed me the A5. Later he said 2 shells are in case you miss the first shot, 3 are for a triple but you have to shoot the first bird first. No i am still, 60 years later, trying to perfect my ability to match his but now only hunt with a gun that holds 2.

[Dean Romig]

Very well stated Garry.





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[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.
My hunting career started that way. The Eastern Arms break open single shot .410 was a formidable weapon, that I got to carry.
That gun is on the wall in my office, as I type.

[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.
Eastern Arms.jpg

[BRDHNTR]

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

[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.

[Mills]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6c6eUeoa9Q

[charlie cleveland]

maybe old willie has got it right...charlie

[BRDHNTR]

My dad had me start hunting with just walking with him. Then he bought me a single shot 410 hammer gun at 12 yrs old. I hunted grouse, pheasant and woodcock with that till 16 when he was satisfied that i was hunting properly and i then graduated to a Parker 16 ga VH. Parkers ever since with an occasional Belgian Browning in the mix. Dad would always tell me that if you can't hit the bird in 2 shots, the bird deserves to fly away. God love him.