Widgon Duck Club
 

Recently there have been several threads and posts centerd around long barreled small bore Parkers ordered by or shipped to specific duck clubs in Northern California. Do the records indicate specific orders of multiethnic guns that were ordered by the clubs and are the total number of guns known? The Widgon Duck Club has been mentioned specifically. Is that the only club that ordered guns or just the most famous? And why are these specific guns so coveted and sought after?

Thanks,
JDG

great gun Bobby
you have to love that long lean look with those barrels and a straight grip.

please excuse my ignorance but what is a "multiethnic gun"?

Several years ago Steve Barnett had a 32" DHE 20 on a #1 frame for sale. It was dated about 1916, I think. I thought about buying it, but the price was way out of my reach and the gun had problems: busted ejectors primarily and was loose as a goose. I figured once I bought it I still had another grand to go to make it right. The original owner though, was a prominent lawyer in LA who was actively involved in railroads and water rights. I can't remember the name, but I should have pursued research a bit further because it sounded like he was a big playa in LA at the turn of the 20th century. Was he a Widgeon Duck Club member? Dunno, but the gun had all the earmarks of a California small bore duck gun.

I was wondering the same thing

Love the gun porn but I'd really like to read more about the clubs, themselves.

Thanks,

JDG

Multi ethnic??? Me too. Was the gun owned successively by people of different races?

Dennis

if i had a long barreled 20 bore gun - it would look like....

oh -never mind

California Fact

Acre for acre, the Central Valley of California supports more wintering waterfowl than anywhere else in North America. At peak times, this region hosts 5 to 7 million wintering waterfowl—more than 60 percent of the Pacific Flyway’s ducks and geese. As you would expect, the high ratio of birds to habitat results in some superb waterfowl hunting. This is especially true on private duck clubs in places such as Butte Sink, Suisun Marsh, and the Grasslands. Good public hunting is also available on several intensively managed national wildlife refuges and state wildlife areas in the region, which also support large numbers of wintering waterfowl.

Abundant species: pintails, mallards, wigeon, green-winged teal, Aleutian cackling geese,
white-fronted geese, light geese


Club Fact.

The Tulare Duck Club (original home of my gun) and the Wigeon Duck Club
share almost identical longitude and latitude.

The Tulare guns predate the Wigeon guns by over 1 year.

After receiving and using their 20 gauge DHE's, the members contemplated
ordering long barreled .410's. It seems due to the abundance of game,
it just wasn't enough of a challenge bagging birds with a 20 gauge.

There are good articles about California small bore duck hunting in a magazine called Western Field if you can locate them.

There's also a story in one of the Hazelton books about shooting at a small bore only club.

Quite a few guys have made noise about writing articles on this but I've never seen one come out. California isn't my area of interest but it would be fun research to do.


Destry