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Nice gun Dean I have an Iver Johnson Super Trap it always gets a lot of looks at the trap range. I heard there were about 1200 sketters in all. I never heard how many Super Traps were maid. Anyway you have a sweet little gun there . Donnie Reels
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Thanks Donnie. From what I have read, about half of the Skeet-ers produced were .410s and the 16 ga was the rarest of all.
I got my information packet from Griffin & Howe today on this gun. What a wonderful job Bob Beach does on these "letters" - Thank you so much Bob! It was sold new in September of 1935 for the hefty sum of $43.26 plus $17.50 for the Miller selective single trigger but there was no mention of the second set of barrels and forend... however, in 1944 when this gun was once again sold by G&H as a used gun for $60 I think we can safely assume the higher price included the second set of barrels. I had hoped this gun might have been purchased by a shooter of note but, alas - it was not. Oddly, Van Campen Heilner (author of "A Book on Duck Shooting") bought an Iver Johnson .410 Skeeter with 28" barrels choked Mod/Mod from G&H just three Skeeter .410s after mine... (decoying ducks?? . . . Naah, I doubt it.) |
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01-22-2010, 09:09 AM
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I had hoped this gun might have been purchased by a shooter of note but, alas - it was not. Oddly, Van Campen Heilner (author of "A Book on Duck Shooting") bought an Iver Johnson .410 Skeeter with 28" barrels choked Mod/Mod from G&H just three Skeeter .410s after mine... (decoying ducks?? . . . Naah, I doubt it.)[/QUOTE]
Dean, If your gun was ordered by a "shooter of note" it would likely not be in such high condition. |
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You're absolutely right Larry. I had that same thought, but ya just never know...
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01-22-2010, 11:54 AM
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Dean, I used the Turkish .410 double I got last summer on preserve pheasants this season, along with my trojan 16. It clearly had a higher percentage of "dead in the air" hits than the Trojan in my hands. It will really lock on and smack them out to 30-35 yards. It's nominally choked Mod/full with 3" chambers and will pattern a killing density with 11/16ths oz. of #6s, 5or6 pieces, in a bird at forty yards.
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01-22-2010, 05:06 PM
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Dean-I will look forward to shooting a round with it
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01-22-2010, 09:31 PM
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It should fit you pretty well Rich. It fits me like it was made for me and you're not that much scrawnier than me so it should be okay for you. I'll set you up with ammo for it or cookies, but not both - so you decide...
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01-22-2010, 10:33 PM
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Now wait just one damn minute...that cookie stealin old man doesn't deserve ANY cookies in fact he doesn't deserve to shoot the "Skeeter" either..
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