Francis, I don't remember any prohibition on hunting in the area of the Eisenhower Farm because of the Kennedy assassination. My Dad had a friend, a retired PA game warden named Bushman, who ran a game bird operation for many years in the south Gettysburg-Fairfield area. We hunted there often and I continued to shoot there with a friend who handled dogs for Mr. Bushman's hunters. I still have pictures of my Irish Setter working that property. For your information, not all of Ike's guns are in Kansas. His famous 20 gauge Model 21 is in the National Firearms Museum. The curator has an entertaining story about the gun that was told in a recent issue of the American Rifleman. Locals like myself and Mr. McCormack check in with the Invincibles on a fairly regular basis, and I check on the Model 21 when I'm over there. Some of our friends have guns in storage in the Rudy Etchen display also. It is an interesting addition to the historical displays. On another point, Ike's Model 42 connection is a pair, a cased pair as pictured in Ned Schwing's book. They apparently didn't belong to Ike, but to a quail hunting buddy. They were in the late Mike D'Angelo's collection some years ago, went to Randy Shuman's, now apparently buried in a collection, possibly Shuman's. Ike probably owned another Model 42, as you suggest. I don't know where it is or what it looks like. In Ike's correspondence with John Olin, I don't believe it was mentioned.
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