Written by Capt Edward C Crossman, July 1926, in the Field and Stream magazine:
Parker Brothers are out with what they call Long Range guns with 3-inch chambers, mostly with 34 inch barrels. With all respect to the makers of one of the best guns in the world, all I have seen of such specimens were muzzle-heavy, like other makes of this type. They would cut down rather than add to a man's duck shooting ability at ordinary ranges and in the hands of a man of ordinary strength and duck shooting knowledge.
And here indeed is what Capt Crossman wrote in the same article after testing a L C Smith Long Range against two 3-inch Super-Foxes, no mention of "out ranging" by one maker or the other.
The new type Smith ….. also shot a mean of 80% or better, using Western Super X , 3-inch Ajax Heavies loaded to order, and some Western 3-inch cases with Western components loaded by du Pont to give nearly 1,000 feet with No. 4 shot
N.B. the 1,000 feet cited by the Cap is the average velocity between the muzzle and 40 yards, as shotgun velocity was reported in those days.
Last edited by Frank Srebro; 03-27-2019 at 06:36 AM..
Reason: Added note on velocity
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