In the recent DU magazine- nice article by Gary Koehler on the famed Nash Buckingham/Burt Becker HE Fox 12- aka- "Bo Whoop" going to join his "Beckered-Brother" the second Becker HE once owned by "Mistah Nash" at the DU museum in Memphis-
Thanks to the the son of Nash's closest friend, the late Hal Bowen Howard, we can see this storied gun soon- I am wondering about the weight of this cannon, as Gary wrote it as weighing 12 lbs. I once owned a "shadytreed gunsmithed" HE 12 with 32" Chromox barrels and it weighed just a tad under 10 lbs.
If memory serves, it had the ill-advised "barrels not guaranteed" stamping on the flats, I have no way of knowing if it had been "Beckered" or not- but it would put 90% of a Federal paper Champion 7.5 shot 1 & 1/8 oz. Trap load into a 36" dia. circle at 40 measured yards- and 95% of that same load from the left barrel. What a cannon!!
