Bogardus....

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I see in the color section of the new Parker Pages a photo of some of Charlie Herzog's guns labeled "ordered by Bogardus" but near them is a picture of Capt. Dubray. Curious if those are actually Bogardus guns or if it's just a typo. Anybody know?

[Bill Murphy]

That DuBray picture sure gets around after I lent the original to our friend Ed Muderlak for use in one of his books.

[Randy Davis]

Working on a Bogardus display for the MVACA summer show next month in Kansas City...

Trap3

[Bruce Day]

Randy was one of the fellows who helped us display 44 nice Parkers at the Pheasant Fest in Kansas City last January. If a person wanted to see Parkers that was the place. Randy is a trapshooter and involved in the history of the sport.

[Jeff Kuss]

I believe that the picture of DuBray went with a hammer gun lettering to DuBray while he was in the military.

[Robin Lewis]

Way cool, I have never seen a glass ball thrower before. Thanks!

[George M. Purtill]

Randy - very nice display. I would love to see a video of a glass ball shoot.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Trap3 I'm assuming you know Ralph Finch who is the editor of On Target Magazine?

I just found it odd that there looked to be a whole rack of guns provenances to Bogardus when I'm unaware of a single example. I'd love to know more, or if the caption is incorrect.

[Dean Romig]

The caption may or may not be incorrect. Charlie can probably give us an accurate account of the picture with DuBray and those guns. I try not to 'invent' any information for Parker Pages, but it is possible that I might have mistakenly given wrong information.

My apologies if I did.





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[Randy Davis]

Thanks Goerge, It would be great to have seen a glass ball shoot...


Destry, I do. Have'nt talked to Ralph in a while. Have seen Bogardus`s live bird gun, a W C Scott & Son SxS. It was donated to the ATA museum. When i was researching Bogardus I read that he used different makes of guns in his shooting exhibitions and some of his guns were lost when a boat sank on the Mississippi. He placed a medallion on his items used in his shows. Don`t know about the photo of latest Parker Pages


Randy Davis

[Destry L. Hoffard]

There was an LC Smith pigeon gun available a few years ago that had his name on the trigger guard but no provenance whatsoever. I had the opportunity to buy it, but I just couldn't make myself pull the trigger on the weight of the name alone.

I've seen a couple of what you're calling "medallion guns" and believe them to have been fake. One was a cheap single shot being offered by Sold USA with some kind of glass ball championship medallion on the stock. There was never a glass ball championship by the name that was on the medallion plus the dates were off from the actual glass ball shooting era. The other one I saw had problems as well, and both of course had absolutely no provenance.

I'm unaware of a gun that can conclusively be provenanced to Capt. Bogardus without question. But I've not seen the Greener that you say the ATA has, so maybe it straight.