[CSL]

As the story appeared 100 years ago in the Feb, 1918 Breeder & Sportsman. Titled "It Was Some Gun", and vividly recalled by T.E Doremus... Harvey McMurchy of Hunter Arms with his creative imagination seems to have carried the day...

"Here's a story that T. E. Doremus, former president of the Interstate Association, says he has carried in his mind for 20 years. It is worth while and has improved with age, like they tell us certain fluids do. It was along about 1896 when Harvey McMurchy of Fulton. N. Y., at that time sales manager for the Hunter Arms Company; the late Ed Fulford, of the Remington Company, and Jack Hull, of Parker Bros., began to argue about the respective shooting qualities of their guns, to the delight of a crowd at the New York State Fair. Fulford claimed for Remington guns (they were making double-barrel guns in 1896) that they would kill ducks at a distance of 150 yards. Hull insisted that the Parker was good for 25 yards more. That seemed to about settle the argument... Suddenly McMurchy horned in and in his quiet, serene manner told how one day he was out hunting partridges and, upon looking heavenward, saw a small object sailing around 'way up in the clouds. Although somewhat doubtful about the chances of making a kill, he nevertheless let drive. The result was most startling. The object seemed to stop for a moment, then it began to fall toward the earth in a wide, circling flight, and at last gracefully landed on a knoll some 200 yards away. All curiosity, McMurchy said he hurried to the spot, and his surprise was beyond imagination when he discovered that he had injured a baby angel. He carried it to a near-by farmhouse, and after a few days' nursing it recovered from the gunshot wound and flew back home. The Smith gun was unanimously voted some gun. "


Best ~ CSL
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