In 1989 when Parker Reproductions lost their production facility in Japan they searched the world for another manufacturer to produce their guns to their quality standards. They found that they'd have to sell their Parker Reproduction gun for $10,000 each. With the inflation we've had since 1989 a Parker Reproduction would have to sell for $19,800.00 for it to be profitable for a company to make it a viable endeavor today.
This is exactly right. At the time, my good friend John Allen of Gamefair Ltd. in Nashville, which is no longer in business, was very close to the Parker Reproduction effort and Tom and Jack Skeuse, and he told me the exact same thing.
And I will add this: abandon all hope of any of these kinds of reproduction guns being done again here or anywhere. It was catching lightning in a bottle when the Skeuses did it in the '80's, and that's not going to happen again.
JR
