Annie Oakley's Parker Loaned Out & On Display
 

Just thought some of the members would like to see this one. It's fairly short, but enjoyable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnBkjEUgMQ

Cool... but it wasn't Wild Bill as stated by the gentleman on the left, it was Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show... as I'm sure everyone here knows.





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The gun Annie is holding in the background at the beginning of the youtube, and in the picture on the table is a Lancaster c. 1885

https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums...&Number=582204

It's hard to get away from Annie's battery of guns - David Condon displayed one of her .22 target rifles at the MACA show last weekend; really a treat to see and handle some of her actual guns used in the shows over the years.

David Condon showed me the rifle that Kevin described. The error in the NSSA clip is that they stated that the 1901 Parker shotgun was used in her shows. Annie used rifles and pistols in her shows, and shotguns in normal competitions, and for hunting, like we do. Too bad the NSSA clip didn't tell us more about the gun. Unfortunately, the NSSA guys don't know much, if anything, about double barrel shotguns. They seem to be afraid to touch Annie's Parker.

Correction: After reading more posts in linked threads, it seems that Annie did in fact use shotguns in some of her exhibitions. However, most photos of her exhibitions show her shooting rifles.

By the way, the "Clay Target Legends" You Tube clips are very entertaining and you can see all of them on a search.

As an aside to the Annie story line:

I have some family heritage connection to buffalo Bill Cody. Bill lived with his sister in Denver in his later years and died here. Because of him passing here my grandmother & her siblings were in the crowd of the bystanders watching Cody's funeral procession on his way to being buried on top of lookout mountain overlooking the plains he loved, lived in & made him the man he was. Then several years afterwards, my grandfather & father's blacksmithing business was contracted to make wrought iron extensions for the fence surrounding his grave. The original fence was short enough that people were crawling over the fence & damaging his grave area, my grandfather's spear like extensions stopped this from happening.

This is probably one of the reasons why things Buffalo Bill related catch my attention. Let alone the Parker connection in this video