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06-10-2022, 01:44 PM
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Is there any speculation that the different styles were purpose driven. IE, one style for trap, another for skeet and yet another for field? Or was it whatever the stocker felt like making or the customer requested?
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John there is an article in Parker Pages by Ron Kirby titled "Parker Forends, The Wedge, the Splinter, and the Trap model" that may shed some light on the topic. 2003, volume 10, issue 1, Jan/Feb. Thanks to a digital archive that can be searched.
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06-10-2022, 06:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by John Davis
Is there any speculation that the different styles were purpose driven. IE, one style for trap, another for skeet and yet another for field? Or was it whatever the stocker felt like making or the customer requested?
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IMO John, it had more to do with the period or Parker era in which they were made as regards the shape and contour of the BTFE that determined the different styles. But certainly a true Double Trap 12 gauge might have a different style of BTFE than a 20 gauge or 28 gauge Skeet gun might have had.
Here's a 1936 28 gauge Skeet gun.
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