doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Parker 12 ga question

It's not fact, just one man's opinion. In other words, it might be the truth but it's not the whole truth.

I'd hardly recommend three days and 2200 miles just to buy a gun - some people have to work for a living. And hardly would I recommend getting schooled by a dealer like Chadwick, no less. That's like telling someone to visit Italy and talk to Don Corleone if he wants to get a loan.

A person can plenty of good information from the internet. For free.

My 2cents are the Parker guns (with a few exceptions) aren't rare. Great condition one's are and condition is everything on making the difference between a VH 12 gauge for $1,000 with issues and the same gun with 80 % original case colors, mint wood and perfect bores etc. etc for $4,000. Buying the best condition (if you are a collector) gun you can afford is always the way to go because unlike the stock market or BP stock, they aren't going to drop in value.

PS. Now if you want a shooter and you want to drag it around and actually hunt with it, get that shooter for sure. For example, you don't see many mint Parker DH's in the duck blind in a salt water marsh on a nasty wet day. You will however find a few mint one's behind a good pointing dog down south pinning a covey of quail on a sunny fall day.

GregSY: You "hardly recommend" anything worthwhile, but are the undisputed master of the meaningless sub-literate attack one-liners.

The fact that you think there is plenty of good free gun-buying info on the internet (sic)--it's a capital "I" for Internet--shows your deficit of basic information.

And as to: "A person can plenty of good information from the internet(sic)" Hell You can't even construct a complete sentence. Given your vast--more like half-vast--experience with negative one-liners, one would expect that you would have mastered 3nd grade English by now.

If anything, your post shows how low the bar is on the Internet, and stands as a glaring example of why a new prospective SxS purchaser ought to seek out professionals in the gun business who actually have guns to show, rather than rely on Internet junkies for off-the-cuff advice.

And the mention of Herschel Chadick and Don Corleone in the same sentence is the kind of incoherent blogger-spam that one associates with high-school-age lesbians who get on guns and hunting websites to stir things up. After all, anyone can sign in; it's not like Dave checks your driver's license or swipes a credit card.

In this context, does anyone actually know if GregSY is a real gun person? I don't recall that he (or she?) has ever contributed anything that displays actual knowledge--it's always the negatory one-liners, like advising a newbie to not hook up with an acknowledged expert--GregSY says, "hardly would I recommend getting schooled..." Maybe this explains it all. EDM

Ed, are you drunk again?

You must have had your grandson up for hours last night looking for flaws in my post.

Let me explain a thing or two to you. I seldom take time to proofread my posts when I am in a hurry and trying to educate a moron. It's hardly worth my time to make the post in the first place - so be glad when when I cast a few pearls before swine. Oink Oink, eh? You probably complain the food stamps they give you each week are not enough for smokes and panty liners.

Internet is capitalized? I guess you're right when it is at the start of a sentence.

A dealer does not qualify as an expert except to people like you who are long on money and short on savvy. As anyone on this BB and you hear the same thing - "That dealer was so dumb he though XXX was the way the gun came originally." If you get wet over that pint-sized dandy in Terrel that's your business but don't encourage others to join your little love fest.

Best of all, you degrade the internet as a playground for fools giving out advice - at the same time you are giving out advice. Lovely.

Everything you write is pompous and, well, just plain ol' dumb.

Anyhow, I always know someone has lost an argument when all they can come up with is grammatical errors. I have no trouble understanding why you bailed on the legal profession years ago. Case dismissed.

I get it: Four books in print (over 14,000 copies out there); numerous articles for the DGJ, SSM, Perersen's Shotguns, Hunting & Fishing Collectibles, and about 40 articles for Parker Pages. All for naught! Alas!

With the exception of Parker Pages, these people pay me coin of the realm. About 180 "Patrons" sent $100 plus S&H for a copy of the Signed 500 Ltd. Ed. of my latest book, even before I had a publisher. Now thirty or more dealers are all over the Internet--Amazon, eBay, et al --selling the $49.95 trade edition, and the royalties roll in.

Then along comes some Internet junkie with zero credentials other than a caustic attitude and access to a computer who says he knows better!

I go to the Yooper last weekend and double gun people approach me at the restaurant 20 miles away, wanting to share stories and a beer. Dealers and gun mechanics buy my books and pump me for information. People I don't know ask to have their picture taken... Everywhere I go--Vintage Cup, Sanford, Hidden Hollow, Yooper, Puglisi's, Chadick's, Galazan's, CADA, Las Vegas, you name it--I am known, not necessarily liked, but known and respected, especially for what I know and am willing to share.

And along comes someone who hides behind "GregSY," who has nothing to say but says it anyway. Let's see: GregSY's words of doublegunshop.com wisdom are:

"Drunk--Moron--Swine--Food Stamps--Oink!--Panty Liners--Chadick a 'pint sized dandy in Terrel'--Pompous--and just plain ol' dumb." Sort of takes one's breath away how much GregSY enlightens us with his double-gun knowledge. Thank you for sharing. I think my prior comment about "half-vast" doesn't fairly capture the spirit and extent of GregSY's participation on this website.

As to GregSY "...understanding why EDM bailed on the legal profession years ago," it was to retire at age 40 and sail my 43-foot cutter/ketch "Outward Bound" from Chicago to Europe and the Caribbean with the wife and kids. Hard work, but somebody had to do it! And after spending the past 19 years, sailing 6-on and 6-off aboard "Solent", mostly in the Caribbean, we sold the Rival 34 in April in order to spend more time in our Mercedes R/V--Alaska in '08 and '09, maybe this year, too--hard work, but somebody's gotta do it.

GregSY: Eat your heart out. Your envy is duly noted. EDM

Heck, I didn't even know that Herschel was short!

Yeah, I hope that being full of information and a bit mouthy doesn't get me the kind of criticism that Ed got from GregSy. Greg has obviously not read Ed's latest book. It is his best and will probably be the last definitive book on Parker shotguns.

Dang Ed, count me as envious too. Here I've been lawyer'in steady in the same little Georgia town since 1972 and none of my boats have ever had NAMES. Well, except for the canoe, the jon boat, and the boston whaler.

You do come on a little strong about your accomplishments in life, but you don't deserve the venom you goaded Gregsy into spewing. Ease up, we all know who you are. I even read your last book...Geo

Yeah, our local author of renown,Robert Waller of "The Bridges of Madison County", is a certified prick according to those who know him,especially the friends he dumped once he became famous. I guess being a best selling author and being a great guy are not necessarily synonymous.I have talked to Mr. Chadick many years ago when he was first starting out in the buying of Parkers and I am hoping he grew wiser and more forthcoming in his dealings in later years.

WOW, I wish I had never started this thread, lets all take a breath. All I asked was some advice. Its OK to have a difference of opinion but some of these posters need anger management.