Vegas Show

[Reggie B]

You guys better save your money for that A1 trap gun coming up. It checks off everything on your list.

[Stan Hoover]

Originally Posted by Reggie Bishop

You guys better save your money for that A1 trap gun coming up. It checks off everything on your list.

I usually stay clear of the BIG BOYS DEPARTMENT

Looks like an interesting Parker, it will be fun to be in the spectator section

[Randy Roberts]

The wife and I stopped off in Sedona for some warmer weather and hiking before the Vegas show. Don't believe everything you hear about global warming.

[Stan Hoover]

We will be departing in a few short hours for Vegas, I checked the tempatures in Vegas this morning it was showing 25 degrees.

Not exactly what I was expecting, but better than 0 degrees which we're seeing here in PA

[Double Lab]

Have a safe trip. It's a balmy 7* here.

[Stan Hillis]

We're getting snow down he'ah! Just enough so far to claim it. Glad we're getting it, for my 6 yr. old granddaughter's sake. Actually, the last time I tried to fly to Vegas for the Beinfield show I got snowed in! Can you believe that? I had to catch a flight in Charlotte to make it and sat in the airport in Augusta almost all day waiting. Finally pulled the plug on it about 4:30 pm and called Queen and asked her to save me a bowl of soup for supper.

[TOOL MAN]

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So are we to assume the only thing "HOT" out in Vegas was Bobby Flay's ghost pepper chili???

[Randy Roberts]

Originally Posted by Steve Cambria

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So are we to assume the only thing "HOT" out in Vegas was Bobby Flay's ghost pepper chili???

Depends on what you seek I suppose. This show should have been called the Win. M-21 show in terms of American doubles. Not much to see in the way of other American manufacturers. Can't say for sure how many Parkers were present but if were betting over/under 20 I would take the under. Puglisi was not present, had they been their Parkers would have outnumbered the remainder of the show.

The highest grade hammer gun present was a Grade 5 with 32" Damascus barrels on a 4 frame, 10 bore. The breech face had been machined out which the owner said was factory work in his opinion us supported by a DGL article. It had a replacement forend and was refinished.

The highest grade hammerless present was a BHE, SG, SFE, AE (Disabled), 12 gauge with 30" barrels. This was a DTM refinish in 2003. Nice looking gun.

There may have been other higher grade Parkers but I am doubtful as I walked the floor from Wed. evening setup thru Friday at noon and talked to a lot of folks. Stan put on some floor miles as well. Never saw a single 410, not even an upcoming auction presentation and Lordy were the auction houses ever represented. Some of these folks were new names to me. I did see one 28 gauge, a 28" VH with nothing remarkable about it.

I will post a few pics of a few guns I saw. One I did not get a picture of was a Grade 3 Hammer 10 with 32" Damascus tubes on a dealers table. It was a restock with chambers lengthened to the point of almost erasing the forcing cones. Asking price was a home run, for the dealer that is.

There was 1 Parker hammer gun that made its way into the ownership of a member. I will leave any comments on that one up to the new owner should he choose to share some details.

[Randy Roberts]

Note the machined face, supposedly to accommodate brass shells per the present custodian. New forend stamped Phenix.

[Randy Roberts]

Note the dead pigeon engraving, kind of cool. Pics probably make this one look a lot stronger than reality. A neat gun none the less.