I got the gun of Gunbroker last week I used the Buy it now. It was part of 4 Ch's that were all 12ga- 3 had 30in barrels and 1 had 32. It has a replaced stock and missing some internal forrend parts. The gentleman had the gun for 54 years and his uncle had it before him. I bought the gun to have a C in lifter damascus steel, top action in bernard steel , hammerless in titantic and single trap that is not marked. I don't know if I paid to much, but I liked the gun. I have a D hammer that has a rabbit and also one that has a fox. Here's the story I got from the gentleman.
A little family background on the gun. It was owned by a uncle of mine in Galveston Tx. He and another uncle of mine were drinking, got into an argument, and the owner got the gun and was going to shoot the other uncle who took the gun away from him and hit him over the head with it breaking the stock. Then the uncle that did the hitting took the gun. I was living in Calif in the 50's and saw the gun in his closet a number of times. Kept trying to get him to sell me the gun as he was not doing anything with it. Finally, in 1955 he got tired of me bugging him and said here, take the damn thing and get off my back. I had a gunsmith friend put on a cheap stock so I could use the gun and it remained in that condition until about 5 years ago when I located the D grade stock and had it installed. Anyway, I had not intended on selling the gun and had put "family gun, do not sell" on my inventory list. Then recently got to thinking if left to my son or grandson they would not be aware of the shorter chamber, and it would not be a safe gun to shoot with the normal 12 ga shells, so decided to put it on auction.
So, that is the story of the parker.
That's the story I got. I thought I would pass it on.
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10-05-2009, 08:03 PM
With all these wonderful C Grades coming out of the woodwork! I really need one of these "lawyers guns" All it takes is money I guess..
Congratulations to ALL you guys...
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