And this is his picture (of my great-grandfather) from that same day. It hangs in my office over my desk.. His name was George Leland Osborn - and the AAHE was his Parker that he ordered from Parker (the picture Jim used is my picture I took of the AAHE however, not from DGJ). What is written at the bottom of the picture is:

He looks a lot younger in that pic then I remember him, 'tho ;)

John

And I've said it before - put a PGCA cap on his head and the family resemblance is uncanny. . . . or, maybe it is canny :corn:

Yup, that's the guy.... As I remember in my research, George L. Osborn had a very distinct shooting stance that made him recognizable on the trap line from quite a distance, a detail confirmed in a late night phone conversation with his Grandson Mr. J. Dunkle... We both had a good chuckle when John shared a great story from his younger days related to the unique shooting stance and how his GrandDad had once corrected John's shooting posture... Somewhere I have a side by side comparison image I posted last year of John and the elder Osborn, and Dean is right, the close resemblance is spooky...
Great Photo John...;)

Best, CSL
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Hi Dean & CSL!

CSL, your research is, once again - spot on correct... :) Sheesh - it wasn't "purty" but it really worked for him... Somewhere, I have a clipping or old picture of him on the line I'll try to find? If you have one as well - please feel free to post it up, OK??

Dean and CSL - as always - my thanks!!!

John

Jim - Still no go with the basic cleaning and gunk spraying. Tomorrow I'll gather up all my screwdrivers to ensure I don't bugger that screw. If I don't find one that fits well, I'll search around town for a better fit.

BTW - It was REAL hard trying to distinguish the difference between your pic and my Trojan. I believe that the screw you point at may be the only thing the two have in common!<g>

Thanks for the help and I'll keep you updated.

Robert: Ensure the screw slot is completely cleaned out. Do not use any kind of wedge shaped screw driver. Hollow ground bits that completely fill the slot side to side and width wise is the way to go. Here's another shot of that screw on a family VH.
http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/cpg1...s/HPIM6782.JPG

I would have a file on hand to thin the blade of your screw driver. just clamp driver in vise and carfuly thin blade or narrow up blade, it only takes a few minutes.

But hollow-ground is always best. Home Depot sells a small, inexpensive electric grinder with a fine grinding wheel about 2" diameter and a tool rest that does a real nice job shaping my set of Brownell's drivers.

Dean, I just received my Brownells thin bit set. It comes with 18 bits and looks like I'm going to like em.

But take a close look. If they are like mine, they didn't come hollow ground and I needed to shape every one of them. Did you get the set with the blue/clear plastic handles?