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Unread 05-07-2010, 07:03 AM   #19
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Jake Gay and JAR Elliot shot against one another in Louisville for the Chmpion Live Bird Shot of the United States in January 1897. Gay shot a Parker and Elliot his Winchester pump. Elliot won by two or three birds. In April of that year Gay ordered his AAH. Sadly the house burned to the ground in about 1977 with all of the Parkers except one and that was a DH 20 gauge that Jake's widow Lucy had given to her granddaughter, Monnie Gay. They did know however where the jewelry and the AAH were in the house and searched the ashes and they were recovered. DelGrego restored the AAH. It survives with only one set of the five barrels. I have writen a story about it, but want to get more information about Jakes shooting before I try to have it published.

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