I am now putting a leather pad on the gun to display my work to people who want to see my leather covered buttpads. My business has really begun to pick up the past few weeks. So that is my first intention. Second, I have never fired it because of the thin barrels and I probably never should have bought it to begin with because it is a low grade gun that would cost a lot more to rebarrel than it is worth. But I did not realize that when I bought it several years ago. I only paid $400.00 for the gun so now, I will probably either sell it as a parts gun or, as I said, sell it to a cowboy shooter and let them deal with sleeving it if they want to spend the money. I really don't. But the curiousity of firing it still lingered. I have already told people at my club, who I shoot with that I had a Parker with cut barrels that were probably too thin to shoot. So, it isn't like I was going to dump them on someone and let them get hurt. So, thanks for your opinions. I really do appreciate them.