Bogardus....
 

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?

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

Bogardus
 

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

Trap3

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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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

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.