What would you order?

[charlie cleveland]

i would order a ph grade 8 ga with 48 inch barrels of fluid steel with 4 inch chambers... a 10 gauge d h grade with 36 inch barrels and 3 1/2 inch chambers and steel barrels...and for the kids a a 1 special 410 with 32 inch barrels...and and and..... charlie

[Gerald McPherson]

I'll bet Charlie doesn't weigh 120 lbs soaking wet.

[Labowner]

If it is only one gun it would be a AA small bore lifter 16ga on small frame with Bernard barrels 28" to 30" tubes lightly choked with ball grip.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Time Machine huh?
I like this.
I'm going down to A&F on Madison Avenue this afternoon. I am gonna wander around on the first floor, look at all the dead animals. Then I'm taking a deep breath and telling the elevator attendant who probably looks like the friendliest guy on earth, to take me to the 7th floor.
After I look over the rediculous racks of English guns I head straight to the Parkers. The salesman approaches.
I'll place my order: 28 gauge DHE skeet gun, 28 inch barrels, double triggers, BTFE, engrave name plate "GMP", include VC case with accessories, same initials on case. How much would it cost for an extra set of 20 gauge barrels?, I ask.

[Pa SxS]

Just send me your money along with the order. I have the Order Books and some blank pages so I will be happy to enter your order. Just be prepared to wait for the finished product. These guns are hand finished so it may take some time until you receive the gun.

Please no phone calls asking when your gun will be shipped

[Jerry Parise]

Not looking at this thread as a wish list I think in order to play this very interesting game correctly we must put ourselves in the mindset of a hunter of the period. I think that with our earning power of the time we would probably be ordering Trojans or V grades with the odd person ordering something a bit higher in grade. With my present earning capacity I would probably be ordering a 12 ga. VH with 30" barrels choked mod and full. I would forgo the ejectors as a cost savings and probably go with a round knob grip just because I like them.

[Bruce Day]

[quote=George M. Purtill;98531]Time Machine huh?
I like this.
I'm going down to A&F on Madison Avenue this afternoon.....]


While I am not an easterner, I remember going into the A&F on Union Square in San Francisco as a boy and walking around in wonderment and thinking "maybe someday". That was before it became part of The Gap and a place for urban gender ambiguity and pseudo stylish edginess. I also remember being on the Hollister ranch and hunting quail when old man Hollister was a tough old horse riding cattleman of land grant heritage and well before his name lived on the butt of teen aged girls hotpants.

[Bill Murphy]

When I first went into the wonderland that was the seventh floor at Abercrombie and Fitch in 1960, when I was about 14, there were two aged Parkers on the floor racks. They were both Whitworth barrelled Pigeon Guns. They were both brown and worn, the ejector gun more brown and more worn than the non ejector gun. The extractor gun was priced at $650, and the ejector gun was priced at $600. In my youthful opinion, neither were worth another thought. I don't remember coming out of the store that first day with any catalogs, but I put myself on the mailing list, and when I got the predated 1961 Used Gun catalog in the mail, there they were, still for sale, with details. I had never picked them up in the store, but I dogeared the catalog over the years going back and looking at them in print. The floor racks were free for gun handling, even for 14 year olds. My first trip to the store was by myself, but before that New York trip was over, I dragged Dad up there for a look. Now that I revisit our old catalogs, I find that my Dad's name is on some, mine on others. I guess we were both on the mailing list. Today, I would have a hard time explaining to my grandchildren how a 14 year old was turned loose to wander the streets of Manhattan with a notebook full of gun store addresses and a verbal tutorial of how to navigate the New York street system. I have another story about my teenage adventures on the seventh floor, one I have probably told here before, but I will save it for another time.

[John Truitt]

34" D grade hammer gun in 28 ga titanic barrels round know with gold cap overall wieght 7 3/4 to 8 pounds balance pinot one inch in front of hinge pin choked full and full.
Maybe with a matching D grade hammerless (sans safetly and DT no ejector of course) if funds would allow. BTW would request reinforced forearm lug for both even though they would both be splinter forearms.
Maybe scroll engraving only with no game scenes.

[Mills]

One of the coolest orders is the Seward Webb order : B Grade 8 gauge hammer gun, AH 10 gauge and AH 12 gauge. To that, I would add a 20 and 28 gauge for quail hunting. I am flexible about grade for the 20 and 28, but G grade or above.