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< 16ga. Guns ~ Restored 16 ga Parker to drool over |
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Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:24 pm
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Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:01 pm
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Nice looking restored Parker but I don't know that it's going to bring $6K. |
_________________ A bad day of hunting is better than a good day of work. |
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Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:40 pm
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If this guy gets $6K for this gun I have two I'll be sending to Delgreco for some freshining up.
Fair price for this gun is $2,800 to $3,200 at the top. He may have been better off leaving the gun original but VH's are just not that collectable.
I prefer my Foxes for hunting. |
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Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:15 pm
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TB-you da man Painful to say this (and don't let Dave M or Brad6260 read this) but I've never had a better quail gun that my 20g Trojan
re: delusional consignment gun-26" brls Cyl/Cyl likely started as 30" M/F 1904 gun with an English stock and BEAVERTAIL Something ain't right here-skeet wasn't invented in 1904.
BTW: The pristine AND original VH 16 at WilliamLarkinMoore started at $4200 and is now listed at $4900. |
_________________ Drew Hause
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Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:50 pm
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Rev, ya beat me to it. Straight grip and beavertail? Actually I don't like either, but what a combination! Do we have a "guy pukin' " icon? If so, insert here! Sorry: I got better places to spend my next spare six grand!
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_________________ I feel a warm spot in my heart when I meet a man whiling away an afternoon...and stopping to chat with him, hear the sleek lines of his double gun whisper "Sixteen." - Gene Hill, Shotgunner's Notebook |
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:42 am
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Location: Michigan
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re: delusional consignment gun-26" brls Cyl/Cyl likely started as 30" M/F 1904 gun with an English stock and BEAVERTAIL Something ain't right here-skeet wasn't invented in 1904.
Rev, I agree with you 100%. Plus, those don't look like DelGrego case colors. I'd like to check the serial number, against the Parker records. |
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:53 am
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I agree about the case colors Dave. Seem to 'bright' for either DelGrego or Turnbull-but at least it's not another 'torch job'
BTW: Some Mass. grouse hunters in the 20's came up with a way to practice for hunting by shooting in a circle with a trap at 12:00. Later, to save safe shot fall area, it was changed to a 1/2 circle with two traps at 12:00 and 6:00. As the game became more popular, a national sporting magazine had a contest to name the new sport and the winner choose 'Skeet' which may or may not be a Scandinavian word for 'shoot'.
UNFORTUNATELY, when I googled 'skeet', I found to my surprise and disgust that it now refers to a sex act (among the rap and hip-hop crowd.) |
_________________ Drew Hause
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:13 am
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OK, so instead of drooling, you're wanting to puke. I knew there'd be some sort of bodily fluids involved .
I warned you that I didn't know beans about Parkers (or restorations, for that matter). Can somebody explain the torch reference? I've seen that elsewhere, and gather it has something to do with touching up case coloring?? |
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:36 am
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:21 am
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For your information, I've only been strained once in my life. I have never been restrained. That is nothing but a vicious rumor.
As for rations, I eat as much as I like....HuH? He said what? Rational? Well hell's bells man, I'm not the one drooling. |
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:35 pm
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Thanks, revdoc. Lots of good info in the thread at that link. |
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Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:12 am
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Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:13 am
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Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:57 am
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My God! The montrous things people do to shotguns. There oughta be a law!
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_________________ I feel a warm spot in my heart when I meet a man whiling away an afternoon...and stopping to chat with him, hear the sleek lines of his double gun whisper "Sixteen." - Gene Hill, Shotgunner's Notebook |
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Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:01 am
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Fin there is just no accounting for some peoples taste.
Several years ago I came across a sweet old grade 4 Ithica that someone had re-stoced in curly maple with a monte carlo style buttstock and beavertail forend. All quite fashonable in the early 60's. |
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