Hello Gents:
I inherited a Parker 20 VHE with 30 inch pipes which I've been hunting upland with for the past 15 years. My great grandfather originally bought it as a duck gun, complete with F/F chokes. It has been through a few iterations, the latest being a Turnbull recase and refinish of the now unoriginal stock. I use it every season to chase 100 or so targets and a few prairie sharptails and blue grouse, usually handloaded with low pressure spreaders. Still a workhorse!
About 10 years ago I came across a VHE in 16 ga. with 32 inch barrels at a backwater gunshow here in Montana. It was choked EF/F, also set up for waterfowl apparently. Being hotblued, I thought little harm in opening the EF barrel to M, and I now use it as perhaps my favorite wild pheasant gun.
Both guns carry and handle wonderfully (I actually shoot the 16 somewhat better, particularly on long crossers).
If I could find more long barrelled guns, I'd sure get into another one!
Ben
