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12-08-2021, 10:10 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Dean, The subject of "What Defines a True Skeet Gun" is a deep and very convoluted definition.
In my opinion, in regard to Parker shotguns, and there are those who will disagree with me, a Parker Skeet gun should have the following features: 1. Barrel length 28" or less. 2. Beavertail forend. 3. Non Automatic safety. 4. Chokes of IC/MOD or less but more open is preferred. (Skeet In/Skeet Out stamps not required) 5. Twin beads. 6. Should have originally been bought primarily to shoot Skeet but hunting upland game as well is not a disqualifier. I've seen guns with the proper Skeet In/Skeet Out chokes that had a dogs head butt plate and I've seen them without those stamps but with all other accepted Skeet attributes. I wrote an article in Parker Pages Volume 24, Issue 3 titled "The Elliot's Twenty-Bore Parker Bros. Skeet Gun" highlighting a DHE with all the attributes of a Skeet gun but without the Skeet In/Skeet Out choke stamps, though it has, according to my measurements, upland chokes. The Elliott men used it extensively for Skeet shooting and took first and second places in two different classes at the local sportsmans club they belonged to, but they hunted with this gun in season as well. The Elliott Skeet Gun.
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12-08-2021, 10:27 PM | #4 | ||||||
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My own VHE 28 gauge is a good example of a documented Skeet gun in both the Parker factory records as well as the Abercrombie & Fitch documented records of it. ( 236912 )
Mine has no choke stamps on the barrel flats but the right barrel has the tighter choke of .015" constriction and the left has a constriction of .008" but it has all of the other Skeet gun attributes. .
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12-09-2021, 07:25 AM | #5 | ||||||
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Here is mine -
20 VHE Flats marked skeet choked Single trigger Checkered butt Straight stock Beaver tail It’s a sweet one! Pictured with a 16 gauge skeet.
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12-09-2021, 08:08 AM | #6 | ||||||
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Does anyone have an example of a PHE Skeet gun? Did Parker ever make a Grade-1 Skeet gun?
We know they made a handful of Trojan Skeet guns and all other grades up th AAHE but I’ve never heard of a PHE Skeet gun. .
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12-09-2021, 08:18 AM | #7 | ||||||
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Couldn't figure out how to add pictures to my post above . So here's my recent addition . Nice enough gun if you can get over the fact it's been totally redone . And as I've said before I'm not fond of any word beginning with "re" .
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12-09-2021, 08:21 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Certainly a nice enough example Craig! Very pretty!
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12-09-2021, 08:22 AM | #9 | ||||||
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Here is mine Dean ,and Good Luck in your search it took me years to find this one ! It was in the same family since 1940 and handed down until just recently and the last Family member decided it was time to sell ! Right Place at the Right Time !
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12-09-2021, 08:30 AM | #10 | ||||||
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Nice one Russ!! A lucky find!
Odd that your 28 gauge Skeet and mine were both manufactured in 1935 but only yours has the SKEET stamps. Is your CHE 20 with beavertail, straight grip, 26" barrels stamped with Skeet In and Skeet Out on the barrel flats? .
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