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Hello Everyone, I Just wanted to share a few pictures of my recent acquisition. Gun letters, with one exception, barrels are now 26". I'm very excited to own this little grouse gun. After receiving some great advice from fellow members, I have decided to make this gun the centerpiece of my small collection. I Will have the Plain Twist barrels refinished and the wood repaired and refinished, then its off to northern Wisconsin for some Ruffed Grouse hunmting. Please feel free to ask questions and of course add any input. Special thanks to Bruce, Jeff, Garth, Charlie, Mike, Randy, Gary, Jim, and Doc. You all provided great knowledge and insight. Thank you of course to my brother Matt... the driving force of my passion.
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The Following 36 Users Say Thank You to Dean H Hanson For Your Post:
I'm sure that gun will be a pleasure to carry and shoot. I envy you, and wish you good shooting!
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
The Following User Says Thank You to Garry L Gordon For Your Post:
I hunt grouse and woodcock with a 16 just like that but with 24” barrels cut back from 28”.
It is delightfully deadly.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Dean Romig For Your Post:
Gary, originally it weighed 6lbs 13oz. I don't have a scale but with 4" missing off the barrels , I would guess 6 1/2 now. Per request "muzzles" extra heavy... and they are indeed stout. Dean
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The Following User Says Thank You to Dean H Hanson For Your Post:
Congrats Deano on a nice Parker I hope to see it in Medford.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter...Earnest Hemingway
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Rich Anderson For Your Post:
I'd be on the look our for another set of barrels.
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Rich, unless I get a call from Bachelder's to pick up some guns, it will be in Medford. The cut barrels are minor to me, considering it's one of about 15 lifter 20's ever made. I believe it will be a great grouse gun.
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03-17-2019, 08:40 PM
I hope to see it in Medford.
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