The high ramp front sight, coupled with a long slide 48S, would make this rifle comfortable to shoot with iron sights as well as the scope. I have always thought that Hutton was the "Old Man" who lived on the mountain behind Shenandoah Guns near the river in Berryville, VA in his retirement from Parker-Whelen gun store on 14th Street in DC. Ben Toxvard at Shenandoah Guns never referred to him by name, but told me that the Parker try gun in his store was given to him by the "Old Man" and came from Colonel Whelen whose gunmaking staff used the Parker to fit customers. Ben was taught stockmaking by "The Old Man" when he retired to Berryville. Some information provided by Michael Petrov helped to put this all together. After many years of frustration, Ben sold me Colonel Whelen's Parker. He claimed he needed the money to pay for his new Hardinge lathe, but I always suspected that he just liked me.
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