Great Northern SXS Add
 

Rainy Sunday and was catching up reading the May-June issue of Shooting Sportsman. There is an add for the Great Northern shoot featuring a very nicely redone Parker, looks like a PH, with beautiful Twist barrels . The shells featured with it are old SuperX Long Range roll crimp paper. I have a box of those in 5's--some go off, some dont, but I sure would be hesitant to shoot those out of a Twist steel barrel, they seem pretty "potent" when fired out of some of my other guns. Maybe just artistic license.
I've heard that's a nice shoot.

Some twist barrels are super heavy, others appear to be paper thin. I surmise from this that Parker didnt particularly favor them one way or the other. Still caution is warranted always.

I have posted this picture before, but I suspect my father was using SUPER-X or NITRO EXPRESS here in 1932 in grandpa's heavy 1890 vintage Quality PH 12-gauge.

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Dave, that picture is simply awesome!

wish I could have been on that hunt....this fellow was a good shot....charlie

That is actually four shooter's strings laying there along with one of the live decoys standing down in the lower right corner. The other shooters were my mother, her best friend Edna, also my father's cousin and Edna's husband Willis. Unfortunately, the picture with my mother and Edna is not in good focus --

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Dave, where were they hunting? Wonderful photos. Way too cool!

Great pictures. Especially the call duck!

it looks like edna might be hunting with a big single barrel shotgun....cool photo.......charlie

The photos are annotated King Lake, MN, October 1932. I bet there is more than one King Lake in Minnesota. I can't tell what she is holding in that blurry photo, but from the family stories I heard as a child, Edna shot her father's Spencer up to WW-II when Willis got her a Model 12.