What would you order?

[Craig Larter]

I love to shoot ducks!! So my order would be for a AHE 12ga 30" F/XF straight stock, 14 1/4" x 2 1/2"x1 1/2" # 3 frame, Silvers Pad, Lab with a mallard in flight on the trigger plate, English scroll on the side of the action with Parker in a banner. Oh yea!!

[Researcher]

I'm with George, but I'd order the 20-gauge and .410-bore Skeet Guns as well, and I'd want ventilated ribs on my Skeet Guns!!

[Mills]

Thinking about what I might realistically buy, check out this D Grade 8 gauge hammergun which was on an old Shotgunworld post. If not this gun, then an early Grade 2 hammerless 8 gauge in the early engraving style

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[Dean Romig]

Keeping in mind that we have a fine time machine at our beck and call, I would order a Parker Bros. shotgun with features and appointments from several of the most desirable eras of Parker history.
My choice would be a lifter with a straight hand grip and and splinter forend made of the richest marbled French walnut. The checkering would be a tight precise 28 LPI in the style of the Grade 5 and the forend would not be fully checkered. It would have the 1878 patented forend latch, and a skeleton steel butt plate engraved to complement the Grade 6 specially ordered engraving on the frame, lock plates and hammers. Oh, incidentally, the hammers would be of the most elaborate scuplting with that attractive extra spur above the screw. The gun would be built on the 00 frame size and would be finished off with 28" black and white Damascus barrels in 28 gauge with the names Bonasa Umbellis and Scolopax Minor woven into the matrix. It would weigh exactly 6 lbs., 5 oz. and would balance 1/2" forward of the pin. The chokes would be open and improved cylinder and the rib would sport a pair of ivory beads.... and I would hunt that gun every day of the season for the rest of my life.

Dammit... I just pinched myself and didn't feel a thing

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Ahhhhhhh. 28 gauge Parker hammer gun. REM material for sure. Put the hookah away Deano.

[Double Lab]

Consecutive S/N, straight grip, B grade hammer guns, in 12,16,20 & 28 gauges, 32" barrels, ivory beads, SSBP, splinter and Bernard barrels of course, all in their own fitted motor cases. Quail covey flushes on both sideplates and a Lab in gold relief on the floorplate. 14.5"lop, 1.5"x 2.5" drop and 3/16" cast on. The 12 would be a 1 frame, the 16 & 20 would be O frames and the 28 would be a OO of course. I would also be a Industrialist with my own private rail car and more money than God. Mr. Carnegie would consult with me on his meager investments. Whew... what a dream. What day is this?

[Wild Skies]

When my interest in doubles began about 36 years ago my dream gun was a 20-ga. DHE, 26" IC/M, DT, SG, SPL and SSBP. This dream gun was at the top of my list for many years until I was "McIntoshed" into believing it needed to have 28" barrels and weigh at least 6 lbs. So my dream morphed into the same gun, but with 28" barrels weighing at least 6 lbs. Then, in 1995, when the Repros were closed out, I bought a 5 1/2 lb. 28-ga. DHE, 26" IC/M, DT, SG, SPL and SSBP and if there is a better gun for my purposes it could only be the real McCoy. So that's what I'd order, but with damascus tubes--a 5 1/2 lb. 28-ga. DHE, 26" IC/M, SG, SPL and SSBP. I could live fat and happy the rest of my days with that little jewel.

[Autumn Daze]

A 28 gauge Trojan.

[Double Lab]

Boy, Dave you're a cheap date.

[Dean Romig]

No.... Dave is very "high maintenance" to be sure.

A 28 gauge Trojan might have been $27.50 when new plus $10 for the special order set of 28 ga. barrels but today.... depending on condition of course... an insurance value could be $30K or more. A well-advertised auction would likely determine it's true value.