W&C Scott

[CraigThompson]

In another thread I showed some pics of my grandfathers old W&C Scott 10 gauge . Well here are a couple more of it with our other two W&C's in 12 and 20 gauge .

Incidently the 10 gauge came from one of the DuPont's thats been gone for over 30 years and the 12 and 20 came from a descendent of the Peters Cartridge Company who has also been gone from this world for 30+ years .

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges001.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges002.jpg

[CraigThompson]

Closer pics of the 12 and 20 stocks both sides !

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges018.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges017.jpg

[CraigThompson]

Pics from the 12 .

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges012.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges013.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges014.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges011.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges010.jpg

[CraigThompson]

Pics of the 20 .

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges015.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges016.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges006.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges008.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges009.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/6pt-sika/12%20and%2020%20Scott/WCScott1012and20gauges007.jpg

[CraigThompson]

The only sad thing atleast to my way of thinking , is the fact that before we got the 12 and 20 they used to be part of a trio . The gentleman that owned both of them also had a 16 W&C Scott from the same period and also having belonged to one of the Peter's descendants from the cartridge company . And sadly that one was sold to an outdoor writer in the Shenendoah Valley of Virginia before we were ever made aware of them being for sale !

And the owner/descendent was one of our semi close neighbors . He had his insurance man brokering them for him :banghead:

[Bill Murphy]

Was the writer Roger Barlow? How were Roger's guns sold after his death? I have always referred to RB as a neighbor even though I can't quite throw a baseball from my house in MD to his. I foolishly traded my W&C Scott 16 away at an Allentown gun show more than 20 years ago. I had owned it since I was 15 years old. I shot my first box birds with it the year I bought it, never should have let it go.

[Mills Morrison]

Great photos and great guns!

[Jay Gardner]

I love those old WC Scott guns. I owned a WCS 12-ga hammer gun for a few years that had engraving that rivaled any gun I have ever seen in terms of depth, quality and coverage. In fact, the only Parker that I have seen that even came close to my Scott was a 20 ga A1S live bird gun made in 1917/18.

Thanks for posting those pictures. Beautiful old guns, for sure.

[Mills Morrison]

I bought a WC Scott off Gunbroker, but had to send it back due to serious rust under the forend. Hated to send it back as it had great engraving, but the rust was serious. I lost out on another one on Gunbroker that I liked better . . . Going to get one eventually.

[Jay Gardner]

I tried to buy a 12-ga WC Scott Bogardus Club Gun (hammer gun) a few years ago that was in the process of being restored from a BAD rechecking job. According to the gentleman t whom the gun was entrusted it had been hanging over a family fireplace for 50+ years. In addition to the usual well executed scroll work there was a bust of a pointer on one side and the bust of a cocker on the other side. The engraving was so fine and detailed that it looked like the eyes of the dogs were looking right back at me and her eyes would follow my gaze. I ran my finger over it and I swear I could feel the dogs coats. Spectacular is the only way to describe it. In the end I believe the gun went back to the family - but hopefully not back over the fireplace.

[CraigThompson]

Was the writer Roger Barlow? How were Roger's guns sold after his death? I have always referred to RB as a neighbor even though I can't quite throw a baseball from my house in MD to his. I foolishly traded my W&C Scott 16 away at an Allentown gun show more than 20 years ago. I had owned it since I was 15 years old. I shot my first box birds with it the year I bought it, never should have let it go.

When we got the 12 and 20 I think I was about 14 so that would have been about 1975 and at the time I think the writer was in his 30's or 40's . So I doubt if he was Roger Barlow , I think in 1975 Barlow would have already been in his mid to late 50's . But I could be wrong as it was almost 40 yers ago .

My father talked with the guy on the phone a couple times and we had his contact info somewhere and that seems to have vanished .