That is a very special gun Scott. Does your research letter document for whom the gun was made?
Feb 22 1913 Sporting Life
Twelve-Year-Old Ralph K. Spotts Gives Promise of Being a Star.
A twelve-year-old boy, Ralph K. Spotts, son of Ralph L. Spotts, a well-known trap shooter, stepped in among the veterans at the Larchmont, N. Y., Yacht Club shoot February 8, broke 70 out of 100 targets and won the Larchmont and Visitor's Trophy shoots, competing with 14 of the club's crack shots, including his father. The youngster returned a full score of 25, with a handicap of eight, in the first 25-target event and repeated the score in the next, clinching his winnings by shooting off ties with "grownups" in both events. That the boy was not favored with his handicap of eight targets is evident from the fact that in his first attempt at the elusive clay birds, made only a short time ago, he was able to break only 47 out of 100—an initial score not without promise, by the way. In his one other trial at the traps before making his first published scores, the young shooter broke 53 out of 100.
Ralph L. Spotts, father of the young man, was a member of the victorious trap shooting team at the (1912) Olympic games (using a Remington Autoloading Shotgun), and firmly believes that every boy should learn the use of arms and ammunition as part of his life equipment.
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