No one in the history of the "Old Reliable" Parker Gun has ever parlayed a single shotgun into more research, documentation, and well-written words than the PGCA's resident rocket scientist Richard Hoover. I commend his recent two-part article in the current and past-quarterly issues of The Double Gun Journal. Richard has done his homework to the 3rd power and injected an element of drama into what could have been, in less skillful hands, just another information drop. A must read for all students of the old double guns; Parker-centric, Yes! But also an informed historical retrospective of how the seminal American-made breech-loading shotguns and related ammunition--especially 11-gauge--evolved in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Two hammers up! EDM
