Don't own a reproduction and don't care to. But I do have my share of originals and shoot them all the time and under all conditions. To me, and me alone, a reproduction can try to be a Parker forever but it'll never make it. What it lacks is the soul the old men in Meriden gave it. Nor can they ever have the heritage the originals let me be part of. I often glance down at the old Parker and smile, wondering what stories it could tell of hunts long ago and sharing mine.....a repro would just be another gun that shoots, nothing more. I plead guilty to being a romantic at heart. If I werent I suppose I'd be shooting a carbon auto.
