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Nash Buckingham in the 1930s, with the help of John Olin, found his answer for high-flying ducks near the Mississippi River with a 3-in Super Fox.
A similar recipe has been shown to help with a much larger and shyly elusive native bird.
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More like a decade earlier circa 1921. Nash's article in the September 1955
Outdoor Life, "Magnum Opus" opens with --
"Nearly 35 years ago the late P.C. (Perry) Hooker walked into our sporting goods emporium in Memphis, Tennessee, and handed me eight unmarked boxes of 12 gauge shotgun shells with one hand and a surprisingly heavy leather gun case with the other." Perry goes on to tell Nash that the shells are all #4, but half are regular 2 3/4 inch and half are 3-inches long--Magnums. They are all loaded with a new-fangled slow burning powder that is supposed to give more velocity, and denser shorter shot strings. The gun's an 'over-bored' Magnum. The boss wants you to test them and give him a full report as soon as you can.
Late in the article Nash says the new shells were on the market a year later and still are with the label Super-X, and "I lost no time in acquiring a 10-pound Fox Magnum of my own."
We know the 12- and 20-gauge Super-X loads were on the market in 1922 with the 16-gauge added late that year. We know the heaviest Super-Fox doesn't weigh ten pounds. As much as I enjoy Nash's stories, the most polite thing I can say is he never let exact facts get in the way of a good story!!