Originally Posted By: L. Brown
That might be why the last Tsar ordered guns like Parker and Lebeau-Courally.

Larry, Nicky-2 never knew some Russian officers wanted to give'im Parker A-1 as gift. The whole story isn't worth 2 cents.
BTW, a lot of different guns been presented to Nicky-2, but it didn't mean he used to hunt with these guns.
One of the last gun Nicky ordered himself for his son Alexey was small double SLE gun made by F.Matska.

Geno.