Eightbore, I wish my uncle used a 410 Parker for quail instead of the much, much less valuable 410 he did use. Then again half my family might have sought out his gun then. As it is I got his gun and bought his farm because nobody else wanted them as much as I did.
I grew up shooting a Winchester Model 12 28 ga. Skeet gun which at one time was a much sought after gun. My father gave it to me for my only Christmas present when I was 12. He most likely figured I'd grow tired of it and ask for a deer rifle in its place like my brother had for his Browning Superposed Christmas present the year before. He'd keep it for quail and buy me a rifle in its place. I still have it. If I live to be a hundred I'll never equal the game it took or memories with it. I use to go through four or five full cases of shells hunting with it every year. When I started out duck hunting we still had ten bird limits, dove were not that big of a thing and I could find a dozen coveys any day of the week. Best day was 31 covey with a new pointer I bought. Those were the days.
