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[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Phil Yearout

Supposedly he did much of his duck shooting with a big ol' 4-bore of some kind. He had a 12-bore Greener and a 12 bore Scott which he used for "jump shooting, pond shooting or field shooting". After breaking up the ducks with the 4-bore he had a seven shot 12-bore auto which he used "as they got off the water". There's a photo in the book but it's grainy and dark; hard to make out any particulars.

What was that hammer forend lever Belgian looking thing he was shooting in the movie ?

Or was that just a prop and he had no such gun as that ?

[Phil Yearout]

I haven't watched the movie yet. The info I quoted above is from the text in the book. The pic in the book shows the 4-gauge to be a straight grip hammer gun; hard to tell from the poor repro photo but it doesn't look like it has a forend lever. Its make is not identified. There's another hammer double that's not identified; it has a pistol grip and a comb riser on it that appears to be leather with lacing around the edges and maybe even tooled. The auto is an exposed hammer model like a Win 97 with a pistol grip and a cheek piece stock