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My old friend the late Henry Thomas of Federal Oak Farm in Charles County, Maryland, gave me this RICHARD 28-gauge that had been his father's.

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I actually watched Henry shoot a round of skeet with this gun with factory AAs!! I never shot it.

A few years later he gave me his 1938 vintage 20-gauge Fox-Sterlingworth that he was given for his 21st birthday that year. Over the next 55 years following his English Setters around the Fox-Sterlingworth had been intimate with every thorny growth and barbed wire fence from upstate New York to Southern Maryland.

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I shot a few limits of Virginia Doves with it.

I passed both of these guns on to a younger Southern Maryland English Setter man who also knew Henry just before I left the National Capital region twenty years ago. A couple of years later he sent me a picture of Henry's Fox-Sterlingworth with one of his Setters and an Upstate New York Ruffed Grouse.
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