Simmons was certainly a big deal in my Show-Me State, selling all sorts of sporting goods, including guns stamped with their own moniker.
I have some guns from Simmons, too. It must have been quite the business. I’ll bet Mr. Researcher has some good info.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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