Nice film. I was however,struck by the apparent absolute lack of gun/shooting safety rules being observed. Walking around with closed actions, drinking while shooting, etc.

Fun to watch, huh? That's the way it was. Oh, that's the way it was ten years ago in some areas. I have been at drinking shoots, don't approve of them now, but then, it was what they did and I was free to go home.

By the way, I looked at the pictures of the Fox car in the DGJ Index article about Tom Kidd. Kidd's Fox car has a rounded hood like a Franklin, double suicide doors like a Franklin, and an air cooled engine like a Franklin. I have nothing more to say. Investigation continues. Who was first, the chicken Franklin or the egg Fox?

The 20's "Roaring"-- but fraught with perils
 

--I never caught the Trap or Skeet "bug' but the Queen City Gun Club didn't allow alcohol on the premises- whether you were shooting or just watching. Wonder what these 'sports in suits' were drinking- I was going to guess "Old Overholt" but as some of these "Babbitt-look-alikes were wearing topcoats- perhaps as it was 1926 and the ill-advised Volstead Act was in force (or in farce)- it was maybe a fifth of "Old Overcoat" and the Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton look-alikes made both the shooting and the yachting party scenes great-- Lessee here- if Charlie Chaplin was shooting a 1926 mfg. Ithaca side-by-side at clays- would he then be "The Kid with a NID"?? If Fatty Arbuckle was shooting Trap with the second series of Ithaca SBTs- would he be "The Hick With a Knick" and the beat goes on!!!:rotf:

Francis, my Grandfather's pigeon ring was run in conjunction with his "cafe". He didn't close down either until 1927, eight years into prohibition. I would assume that, as with most pigeon operations in Northeast Pennsylvania during prohibition, the selling of alcoholic drinks was part of the business. Read Canfield to get a feel for the time and the place. It is a great book, available at less than five bucks on amazon.com.

Not to mention the pointing of the guns at the camera man.

Is that a Parker SBT that is being shot in the forground of the man at 1:25 in?
Maybe and Ithaca perhaps.