Let's define a "shooter"...

The shotgun held by writer Ernest Hemingway is "shooter"-- IMO any shotgun you'll carry through the briars and brush after grouse or have in a goose blind in a pit in a muddy cornfield is a "shooter", ditto the VH single trigger 20 pictured as having been Burt Spiller's grouse gun, also in recent PP issue- Great magazine, our publication is the "A-1 Special" of all the gunning magazines going, again, IMO. Kudos to Austin Hogan and all the contributors for their fine work--

Off topic a tad- at a area Gun Shot today (Sat 27th) mainly looking for some Parker receiver/safety components for a friend- a dealer I know had a 179xxx sn. range 16 bore VH- DT, extractors, barrels reblued, original case colors? and varnish- DHBP-- fit me like a cathcer's mitt did for Johnny Bench- I expected it to be a std. 1 frame- surprise, surprise- it was clearly marked 1 & 1/2 frame size on the lug. Would that have been a special order??