2011 ANNUAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

Meeting and Banquet:  

September 9, 10 & 11 in Louisville Ky. in conjunction with the Louisville Gun Show.

Lodging: 

The PGCA will be staying at the Hilton Garden Inn at:

2735 Crittenden Drive
Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 40209
1-502-637-2424

The room rate is $89 per night and $5.95 for breakfast (suggest adding) for a total of $94.95 per night. The PGCA has 50 rooms reserved. Callers to the hotel will need to mentioned "Parker Gun Collectors Association" to obtain our special rate of $89 per night with the $5.95 per day breakfast coupon. The breakfast coupons are half price for our group.

Banquet: 

The PGCA Banquet will be held on the evening of Saturday, September 10th. located at the beautiful Frazier Museum, 829 West Main St. Louisville,Ky 40202.  Tickets for the banquet will be $65 per person, until 7/15/2011, including the buffet meal, silent auction and guest speaker Louis Parker will be giving a talk on the Parker family and some of its rich history.  After 7/15/2011 the tickets are $75 per person with ticket sales ending on 8/25/2011.

Please send payment Dave Suponski, 266 Clover St. Stratford,CT 06614 and make checks payable to the Parker Gun Collectors Assoc.

A wonderful caterer lined up with food that should be outstanding!

The Banquet Theme:

The theme for this year’s Parker showing during the banquet will be the "C" Grade gun. This will include both hammer and hammerless models.

The People's Choice Award will once again be back at the banquet and members will have the opportunity to display their C grade guns. We are looking forward to a wonderful display!  

Contact David Dwyer to reserve your spots in the "People's Choice" display at the banquet.

The PGCA Silent Auction: 

The Silent Auction has been extremely successful in generating much needed revenue for the PGCA and has included some wonderful donations of auction items from both PGCA Members as well as from businesses that specialize in sporting related products.

Please look around at your accumulations of shooting and sporting equipment for anything you thought you needed but find you can do without and let Dean Romig or Larry Frey know what you would like to donate.

PGCA Headquarters: 

The PGCA headquarters will be at the gun show itself and the organization will have four tables manned by BOD and other members for the sale of raffle tickets, memberships, etc. 

The PGCA has arranged for members tables to be available at the Louisville Gun show.  These tables will be sold by Ron Dickson, the Louisville gun show promoter.  Information about the purchase of these tables will be circulated in the next issue of the Parker Pages or simply return this form to reserve a table.  Tables will be sold on a first come first served basis and all tables in the PGCA exhibit must contain only Parker guns or other Parker Brothers merchandise.  Tables will be $65 for display, and $105 for a sales table.

 Pictures to follow....

The Prize: The 2012 Raffle gun is a 10 ga. hammer gun Ser.# 50963 on a  3 frame with 30" twist barrels, LOP OF 14".

Raffle Ticket donation is $ 5.00 @ or $ 25.00 per book of 6 tickets.  Buy a book and get one ticket free.

Make checks payable to PGCA Raffle and send to:

Edward J. Morgan    

10781 E. Golf View Dr.   

Galena, Il. 61036

The Raffle Gun winner is solely responsible for meeting any and all obligations as required in their county, state and/or country by local, state and/or federal laws to their right to own, possess and or take possession of this firearm.

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2011 Challenge Cup Events:

Qualifying for the Challenge Cup (Event 1) begins on Friday around noon, and continues Saturday until everyone that wants to participate has had a chance. Entry fee is $10.00, plus current membership in the PGCA. Target fees apply in addition to that; last year they were $15.00 for the 30 target qualifying round.

Challenge Cup (Event 2) for will be the top 10 shooters from each collectors association. This event is another 30 target event on a re-configured 5-Stand, with the Challenge Cup winner determined by the total score out of the possible 300 targets for each team.

Hammer Gun Challenge - Sunday morning is set aside for the Hammer Gun Challenge. Entry and target fees are the same as Event 1 of Challenge Cup. The simplified format calls for the total of the 10 best scores from each association to be used to determine the winner of the Hammer Gun Challenge Cup.

There are individual awards for the Top Gun, Runner-Up, 3rd Place, and 4th Place in the Challenge Cup, as well as High Lady and High Junior. These are awarded based on individual score, regardless of which make gun is used. Top Gun and Runner-Up awards are also given in the Hammer Gun Challenge Cup.

The PGCA continues to award our shooter with the highest score in the Challenge Cup shooting a composite steel barrel gun the Oscar Gaddy Award.

Results:

Team  (Parker victory)

Parker 221       L. C. Smith 217

High Gun

Don Shumaker 56 (Parker)

Runner Up

Grant Rosser 55 (L.C. Smith)

Third

Adam Pickett 54 (L.C. Smith)

Fourth

David Collins Sr. 52 (Parker)

Youth 

Edward Blake 22 (Parker)

Lady

Alyssa Liles 14 (L.C. Smith) (Tied with Deb Frey won by tie breaker rule)

Oscar Gaddy Award

Tom Carter 24 (Highest Score in Event 1 with a Damascus barrel)

Hammer Gun Challenge

Team (L.C. Smith victory)

L.C. Smith 242      Parker 236

Top Gun

John Truitt 29 (Parker)

Runner Up

Dan Christofferson 28 (L.C. Smith)

Read the Rules of the Challange Cup 

Challenge Board		Hammer Gun Board

2011 Great Northeast Side x Side Classic

The PGCA will have four display tables at the Hausmann's Hidden Hollow Sporting Clays Northeast Side by Side Classic.  For directions and details of the event, see the event web page at Hidden Hollow. 

The PGCA display tables will be located in the dealer tent area and an assortment of Parker guns will be on display, raffle tickets will be sold and PGCA membership enrollment take.  The table is for display only and sale of guns will not be permitted.

Any PGCA member wishing to display their Parker on the PGCA display table needs to contact Dave Suponski to make arrangements for display space.

This is the first year that the PGCA will have an official presence and is in need of help with the following:

• Gun display racks.

• Member(s) to man the table while others shoot.