A lot of the smallbore 32 inch guns can be traced to the West Coast duck clubs. DuBray was a big proponent of the smallbore shotgun for waterfowl as was Edwin Hedderly who wrote about them in Western Field magazine. I've read a great story about a guy being invited to a small bore only duck club in California but for the life of me I can't find it again. I'd swear it was in one of the William Hazelton collections.
All the oddball 3 inch paper smallbore shells I've got in my collection have come out of California.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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