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Once in a while you could catch one on the Hartman boys, but not often.
They were very shrewd traders.

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Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack View Post
Like most of the longtime gun shows, the Syracuse and Albany shows have gone the way of the MREs. black gun accessories, and flavored venison jerky assortments. Never bought a gun at Syracuse, but scored the very best 32" Browning Superposed Grade 3 ("Fighting Cocks") trap with the narrow rib, long tang and round knob grip I'd ever seen from the Hartman Bros. (Elmira Arms) at a fall Albany show one year.

Price was obscenely cheap; "No one wants those old long-barreled Browning traps unless they're a Broadway rib!" I stopped at the show on a whim while on the way to visit with PGCA Historian and TPS co-author Roy Gunther, then living in Averill Park, just east of Albany, to research the Sunderland gun, which I subsequently wrote an article on for the Double Gun Journal ("The Graduation Gun"). Weather was perfect for travel and shunpike diversions; the show and my visit with CDR Gunther made for a near-perfect road trip.
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