Hedderly Guns
 

Kevin; I remember my first meeting with you and your brother, and our discussion of Hedderly. Glad to see you are back at it

Best Austin

I can't wait for the Hedderly project to come to print. Get busy, Kevin. Maybe you could give us a little teaser, like the picture of Edwin, his duck boat, and the 32" 16 gauge.

In addition to a new computer, a new digital camera is in the offing budget for 2010 - I maxed out my great original Sony Digicam while climbing up an aluminum ladder into the "gunloft/manroom" of a close friend to shoot some hot wannabe ("no record") Hedderly Parkers - shattered the LED image screen against the ladder sidebar. All this frivolous drivel-posting of days gone by is coming to run into real money these days!!!

But to satisfy Eightbore and Researcher's lust for a "Hedderly Fix", I can say that the original ELH 16 ga. 32" A-1 Special was last seen in the Salt Lake City UT area in NRA poor condition, and that the "One That Got Away" 20 ga. 32" A-1 S disappeared sometime before WW Twice, reportedly to Europe, "maybe' to have barrels repaired or (more likely) replaced by Krupp after having been "tensile-strength embarassed" (read bulged) by one of His Nibbs hot long-range smallbore duck loads. This particular gun was "lost" and never seen again. My guess is that it is sitting unaltered in a barn somewhere in Bavaria doing "house gun" duty on pigeons, or that it was correctly fit with new Krupp barrels and enjoys its new life as an "under the radar" gun, used on snipe in the flooded lowlands of Holland and taking teal and wooducks as the first frost approaches off the coast of Peenemunde. Don't laugh - stranger things have happened - Jack Skeuse, father of the Parker Repro, told me he met an English gentleman on a grouse moor in northern Scotland who was shooting a well-worn 12 ga. A-1 Special in the early 1970s. According to the gentleman, the gun had been ordered by one of the McIlhenny(sp?) family of LA (originators and patenters of Tabasco Sauce). Go figure!

Very unusual to see KBM stroll'n the halls this late at night wax'n Hedderly nostalgic... The dbl-gun itch never sleeps... Great Stuff!!!:)

Best, CSL
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Yeah, Chris, since his Browning awakening, it is hard to get the Redhead to talk Parkers. However, it is rumored that Field and Stream has offered him the big buck for the Hedderly saga.