Mr. Osthaus: Well I don't actually agree with that completely. I have shoot boxed birds as late as two years ago. There is actually a very large world wide community of folks who still shoot "Fliers" and it is still legal in many states and outside the US in many Latin American and European Countries. It is done in a quite way and yes it is a big money game and most of the shooters shoot big money guns. Now in 1924 as now not everyone who shot boxed birds was a millionare. I imagine the Parker VHE i have cost in excess of $ 60 with the bevertail forend and ejectors and I imagine in 2015 dollars that is a lot of money for the average guy. Pigion shooting was common in every state back then and there were alot of clubs around still. Not saying your wrong, just saying it could have been a trapshooters gun or it could have belonged to a guy who did both but on a local or regional level.
That's the great thing about strange guns, absent the record of whom it was sold to, I will never know just guess.
As to the fancy shooting irons there is a very large shoot held in PA each year and the winner four or five years ago was shooting a Remington Pump Gun. Imagine that
