Remembering Austin Hogan
 

This was in the case of a CH 10/12 that Austin gave me many years ago. I will take the 26” 10 ga with me pheasant hunting.

Cropped and reposted.


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Austin with a couple of the usual suspects --

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at the 2003 Vintage Cup.

A few more of Austin - in the last two group pictures Austin is at the far right.

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I was wondering where that 10 Gague 26" gun came from Bruce. That makes my mouth water at the thought of shooting late season pheasants with that gun.

I saw Bruce take a quail with it in Kansas a few years back.

The 10 gauge barrels for this number 2 framed CH are factory 26 inch and four blade Damascus. Both barrels are factory non choked cylinder. It is still a heavy gun, about 7 3/4 lbs, so I carry it a while then put it away. I have a case of 10’s from RST in 1 1/4 oz 5 shot and it makes most pheasant shots easy.

In the last few years I have been using a 7 lb Parker 12 ga 28” G top action hammer shot gun on much of my upland game hunting . I like the challenge of the external hammers.

I am heading north on Sunday for two to three weeks in the grouse woods then south to pheasant . Too warm here. I am taking some windshield de-icing fluid for Dick Dow. They don’t sell that stuff in SoCal, too many people there buy it for cheap alcohol and it would pollute the Los Angeles freeways.

Didn't the State of California find that it causes cancer in laboratory animals??





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Hammer guns rock, Bruce. My best duck gun by far is an 1883 32" twist bbld hammer gun. Never seen a 12ga dust clays or kill ducks so far out as that thing will. My grade 2 dam 10ga hammer gun is also incredible on upland birds. I've used it for pheasants and chukars on a preserve and it really got it done. As with yours though, it's heavy to carry.

I never met Austin, but wish I had the privilege. He left quite a legacy here as well as many other places I have heard.

Austin was beyond brilliant and was a super nice guy.

I have a bunch of his charts, graphs and plottings of various attributes of chambers, chokes, etc. that I look at every so often and try to understand them.

Why he even plotted snowfall for three years in a row where he lived in northwestern NH. And he charted snowflakes too...





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California certainly would prohibit anything that pollutes or causes cancer , except of course meth, cocaine, heroin, sewage on streets and garbage.

Austin, was a fine gentleman, and as Dean says very very smart, I am privileged to have his little 20 ga Hammer gun with the little 00 exposed hammer frame 29/32 firing pin spacing on center, Gary

I wish Austin and I had crossed paths the one year that we were both working in Antarctica. He worked out of a camp run by a friend and I ran another a few hundred miles away. We likely were in McMurdo at the same time but, unfortunately, never met.

Bruce I hope you have that 10 gauge when we meet up in South Dakota.

You would have liked him Richard. Austin was Phd. geophysicist and the consummate scientist.





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Austin's skeet gun is a constant companion for me.

I’ve never seen that one Bill, can you post a picture or two of it?





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I will have it.

You southern boys better bring a sweatshirt . It’s 28 and breezy outside here in northern Minnesota. I am thinking about wading out and breaking ice out to the clear water and see if I can catch some walleye for supper.

Whoa, Dean, a picture.

Yeah I know Bill, a picture... :rotf:




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Austin's skeet gun, at least he referred to it that way, is one of the last lifters, 104,000 range. It is a #3 frame 32" full and full nine pound monster. I had seen it at a Pennsylvania Gun Collectors show probably 30 years ago. Clarence Bowman was sitting in the snack bar with the big gun laid on the table. I knew it was a rare gun and wanted to buy it. I asked Clarence about it and he quoted a very high price which I would not pay. Years later, I saw it with Austin, offered to buy it, but he refused to sell, saying that it was his favorite skeet gun. Years after that, it turned up in Austin's estate. At that point, I paid about three times what Clarence asked for it.

Bruce that's about the same weather I left in SD last week except the winds were at 30 mph. A few cold mornings in the tree stand next week should toughen us up. We'll be ready, I think....

Bill, I’ve always found Clarence to be very fair. His prices are realistic but like a lot of us, he doesn’t like to pay the asking price.





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Hate to bother you with a request but would it be possibly be to see a couple pics of the CH 10 26” ? Thanks in advance !

A wonderful Man Nuff said!!