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Keep in mind, boys, that I'll bet more than one Parker employee lost a son at Pearl Harbor, Okinawa or some other such place. I have zero doubt that any Parker employee would spin in his or her grave seeing their gun made in Japan. That doesn't mean anything to a lot of people. It does to me.

True, but then again the Japanese already got all the money they'll ever get on Parker Reproductions, since they haven't made them for 20 years. Now when you buy one, a good old American hunter, collector or firearms dealer gets the cash, same as with an original! As far as comparing quality to the originals, I've heard many reports that CSMC's Foxes, Model 21s and their Remington ($50,000) Parker are superior to the original, so it may be possible that the Parker Repros are superior to the originals too. I don't know about "soul" (I thought only people had souls), but I really enjoy my Repros.
Joe

When I hear someone refusing to own a gun based on its origin, I would like to examine his garage, his kitchen, and his workshop to search for Jap, Chinese, and Kraut merchandise. My late father in law made it to 78 years old without driving a non U.S. made car or shooting a non U.S. made gun, but regardless of my feeling toward those furriners, I gave up a long time ago. I'm doing OK on the car thing, but I have been shooting Krieghoffs and Repros for decades. Even the most hard core Kraut haters are buying Lugers, Mercedes Benzes, and Mauser rifles.

GregSY, I respect your sentiments but I've let that stuff go. It doesn't work for me. Canada, America and a lot of countries have been complicit in brutish empire-building and now are together in conflict with Islamic fundamentalism.

I welcome the talent and commitment of good men and women wherever I find them and don't visit on them the sins of their fathers and grandfathers. I don't think those Old World craftsmen and their descendants in Meriden would either.

Eightbore, as noted I own a Repro - I hardly refuse to own Japanese products. But that's a far cry from stating that a Japanese-built Parker Repro is 'a real Parker' or 'better than an original'. I know you can see the distinction.

King, we'll have to disagree. It's not an issue of sins of father or grandfathers we're discussing - but rather sins of the first generation. I find it near impossible to believe a Meriden guy would think it OK that his gun was being built anywhere else, much less in the land of a sworn enemy. We might not consider the Japanese an enemy now but in 1944 you can bet everyone did.

Agreed: your point of a Meriden man thinking any other shop would or could produce a Parker. GM went down for thinking the same way about cars.

Since there isnt much going on in this thread, lets talk case colors on the repossessed Parkers. I,an underfed leaping gnome, believe that the repros are not done with traditional case coloring. My guess is that they are heat colored. Which is why they come off if you look at them too much.

1) GM went down because of their agreements with the UAW.
2) To say what anyone would thinks who is long in the ground is just a WAG,maybe the "Meriden Man" would be happy to see the name Parker still discusssed,built and used long after its "orginal" factory built guns ended.

Keep your politics off my shotgun board!! It makes some of us think your a jackass.