For the Parker lovers here

[Bill in Oregon]

I don't know if I have ever seen more spectacular wood than Aaron Little used on this custom 28 build on a Parker 20-gauge frame.

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/ev ... 6741006772

[gamekeeper]

That is one Beautiful little shotgun.....wow.

[GunnyMack]

Drooooooolllllling

But MY Parker is prettier! She has a lot more grain and character in her coat

[Ysabel Kid]

She's a beaut for sure!

[LeverGunner]

That is quite nice. Thanks for sharing.

[LeverGunner]

Drooooooolllllling

But MY Parker is prettier! She has a lot more grain and character in her coat

Since I'm new... I ain't seen her before. Got any pictures handy?

[GunnyMack]

Parker, is a pup I kept from my 3rd litter. She is six now. Last year she became a momma herself. There is a topic here, Parker puppies if you would like to see that.
It's true what they say about bird dogs getting better the more seasons the hunt.

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She is indeed named after Parker shotguns but a little of it is also after PO Ackley who started my Alma matter.

[Bill in Oregon]

Will, my late friend Chick Donnelly, of Siskiyou Barrel Works in Applegate, OR, held Parker Ackley in great reverence after his time at Trinidad. Ackley told a funny story or two at Elmer Keith's expense, having been the supervisor at Ogden Arsenal with Keith worked there.

[GunnyMack]

When I started at Tdad the school had just scrapped Ackley's barrel drilling machine.

[6pt-sika]

Sporty for sure ! The guns built on an 0 frame , the first Parker 28’s were all built on 0 frames they didn’t start with the 00 frame until they’d been making 28’s for several years . The little VH 28 I had was on an 0 frame and if memory serves made in 1904 or 1906 . Jacque’s in Ohio has a very very sporty Parker 28 gauge upgrade for sale , actually had the gun a few years I think . Anyway it’s been restocked with some exceptional wood along being engraved and gold inlaid by none other than Winston Churchill ! For the uninformed Winston the American born engraver not the portly British fellow with the cigar . Both incidentally are no longer with us .

[6pt-sika]

After rereading the post with the pics of the Parker 28 I’m about 95% sure I’ve had that gun in my hands last September at the Vintage Cup . A friend had commissioned someone to make him a pair of Parker’s with 34” barrels for competition being a 28 and 20 . Last September he had the 28 at the Vintage Cup .

[6pt-sika]

I texted my friend and sent him the pics that is none other than his gun as I thought ! I can say for a fact the little gun has a nice feel when you put it to your shoulder .

[Bill in Oregon]

6pt, that's awesome!