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Unread 04-08-2012, 10:05 AM   #1
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Taken from the March 1937 issue of Hunter,Trader,Trapper magazine. Read to the botton of the Winchester 32 Caliber Automatic column. Happy Easter!
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Unread 04-08-2012, 10:22 AM   #2
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Dave, Now if you will just get that time machine done...
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seem like a high price for 1937. wonder what grade it is and who has it now? scott
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Cool! That outfit was in Minnesota. I wonder if that Parker was used for 'Market Hunting' on the Mississippi Flyway? Ja, that was a lot of ducats in 1937, you betcha! Thanks for sharing.
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Frayseth's was a major dealer in big bore shotguns. They advertised that they were buying big bores all the time and they offered many big bores in their classified ads. I get the impression that their customers were shooting big guns long after they were outlawed for waterfowl.
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Unread 04-08-2012, 10:25 AM   #6
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im gonna go to the bank and barrow that 250.00 dollars in the morning and get that parker 8 gauge...thanks for the heads up and a good EASTER SUNDAY to all also....ps may get that 3 doolar 12 ga single to if they will loan me 3 more dollars....yep times are still hard.... charlie
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The $250 in 1935 would approximate what an 8 gauge Parker in fine condition would go for today--$8,000 to $12,000. Nothing really gets much more valuable after youconsider the effects of accumulated inflation.
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seem like a high price for 1937. wonder what grade it is and who has it now? scott
I agree completely... very high price for that time.

This one is also from the same time period.



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I always wanted a big one.
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I think most folks would be surprised at how few Parker 8 gauge guns were used by market hunters. If you hunted ducks for the market you couldn't have afforded one, there wasn't really a lot of money in that sort of work.

Legal market hunting ended in 1918, it was still going on in 1937 but nobody was using a $250 shotgun to do it.


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