Readily Available Parkers
We need some more pictures here, so here is an easy one to post and keep interest going.
Here is a GHE 12ga, this a 1910 three blade damascus, 30" barrels full and fuller, #2 frame, wt is 7 1/2lbs. I have used it for years to pound anything from light to heavy loads through it depending if I am shooting targets or game, or waterfowl. I've shot loads up to the SAAMI limit in it, its my workhorse for when I need to make the shot.
Parker made 18,000 of these damascus G's, mostly in 30" 12's, probably mostly #2 frame. I believe the gun type significantly helped to make Parker a legend among shooters. They are readily available today and a person can go to about any gun show and find one or several. This one has unaltered barrel bores, so the walls are about .036, well thick enough for anything I want to shoot. This gun was originally sold into Vancouver BC and spent its life in BC until I brought it down. I'm sure its shot many ducks and geese, yet the action is tight, the locking bite is still centered and there is nothing wrong with the gun. When I got it, the barrels needed re damascus browning and the stock needed light refinishing.
So I recommend these guns to anybody thinking about a first Parker or even a go-to multi purpose Parker. They are out there and relatively inexpensive and you can have a gun that is nice looking and gets the job done.
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