Can someone check this serial #?

[MarketHunter]

A lot of the smallbore 32 inch guns can be traced to the West Coast duck clubs. DuBray was a big proponent of the smallbore shotgun for waterfowl as was Edwin Hedderly who wrote about them in Western Field magazine. I've read a great story about a guy being invited to a small bore only duck club in California but for the life of me I can't find it again. I'd swear it was in one of the William Hazelton collections.

All the oddball 3 inch paper smallbore shells I've got in my collection have come out of California.



Destry

[Duckman]

Originally Posted by Ed Blake

Thanks for the education on small bores for waterfowl. (My problem is I don't know what I don't know.) That looks like a long barreled 28, Peter. What are its dimensions? I did see a 16 gauge DHE last week on a #1 frame with 32" barrels. I was told there is a Parker letter tracing it to a group of 3 ordered by members of California duck club.

Its a reproduction two barrel set, sorry. The 28" barrels are on it in the pictures. There was an original 28 ga in my family. It was given to my dad by his older brother, however it was stolen back in the 30s or early 40s. That is how I got interested in these things. I will always wonder what it was. Dad said it had damascus barrels and a lot of engraving. Who knows??? My uncle was a man with a taste for nice things, especially guns. He was born in 1879 so he was buying during the heyday of American craftsmanship. He favored Parkers and WW Greeners.

[edgarspencer]

My dad bought one of the Wigeon Club guns from Gary Herman, back around 1980. It (they all were) was a 32" 20 bore.