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Originally Posted by Todd Poer
I agree Bill. Direct and circumstantial evidence points to guns maybe stamped with skeet chokes at the 1935 mark if not maybe some even in 1934. They may have had some in stock prior to 1935 as spec guns. Pete's marketing brochure is reportedly from 1935, so that would make sense as part of ramp up unless skeet guns were always a costumed ordered affair.
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I gave the details of the PGCA letter and my gun in an earlier post. It is stamped Skeet In and Skeet Out, it has no evidence of ever being refinished. I bought it from the grandson of the original owner who said his grandfather used it to hunt grouse until age 94. It has quite a bit of carry wear and very little mechanical wear which seems to go with what I was told.
Here is the back of that Remington Skeet Gun advertisement. There is a 6 35 in pencil in the upper right and the lower right it has 1935, American Medicinal Spirits Corp. There is also a 1935 in the address on the Remington Ad side.