Model 21's can be a bit heavy, if you don't buy a Skeet Model in 26" SK1 SK2 with Straight English Grip. I am very lucky! Mine was made the first month of production in 1936 ,is a one owner gun and is 95% or a bit better. It is all original, no watertable flaking at all, checkered butt still sharp, diamond wise and no appreciable wear anywhere. It tips the scale at 7LBS. 2OZS. I looked HARD for about 3 months and kissed a lot of frogs before finding this one, for $5200 a year ago at William Larkin Moore and Sons. If you don't buy a Model 21 then buy a Parker Reproduction, if you want to hunt it. Good quality for good value! Buying Parkers in "original condition" and then trying to hunt with them "as is" is MURDER, ALTERING ONE TO HUNT WITH IT, IS A CRIME! As far as the Model 21 goes it's not perfect, but it is the finest all around double shotgun ever made in America. If you don't think so, they were for all practical purposes, production line made for approx. 30 years and they have outpassed all other guns in relative value, in just more than 50 years since ending production, with just 30,000 produced. I see nice clean original VHE PARKERS for $2000-$2500 all the time, try to buy a clean early Model 21 for that. Nuff said.
