Passenger Pigeons.....
I'm currently in discussion and sharing information with a gentleman who's writing a book about Passenger Pigeons. I was just thinking that there are certainly Parker guns still extant that have definitely shot wild pigeons before they were extinct. The last live bird matches that used real passengers would have been in the VERY early 1880's. After that the birds were too scarce to be a reliable source so pen raised and feral pigeons came into use. Be fun to positively identify a famous trap shooters gun that was old enough to have seen use on the real thing.
Destry
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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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