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"I will have to read this over the weekend.. I really like Parkers."

Me too.
I grew up shooting a Parker 20 on a 28 gauge frame . It was made in the year 1900.I have the Parker Letter on it. The original owner was the wife of an avid quail hunter my dad knew back in Oklahoma. When she passed, dad heard about it and arranged to buy the old gun for his 3 boys. Fortunately I was the only one small enough to shoot it and shoot it I did with stock extender made by a gunsmith neighbor.

This picture was taken after a friend took the gun to the shop of a well known gun maker friend and tightened it up and removed a the worst dents in the barrels.

Who would guess that as a teenager, I used this gun to push down barbed wire so I could cross. The gun is mechanically sound now, but I decided to leave the dents and scratches to remind me of the the good times hunting with it.
Later, I bought two Parker reproductions; a 20 and a 12, and still hunt with them. The 20 with a Kansas pheasant:


The cold and icy weather caused me to turn down an invite to go shoot birds today.
Must be getting old!

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