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08-10-2014, 10:50 AM | #3 | ||||||
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Edwin Hedderly, then editor of Western Field wrote extensively on his testing and waterfowling with long barrel small bore guns during 1911. He got some killer long barrel Parker small bores built especially for him with outrageously long stocks, in exchange for Parker Bros. advertising in his magazine. One of our members was working on transcribing all of Hedderly's material and publishing it, back before I retired and left the DC area, now over a decade ago. One of Hedderly's A1-Specials was pictured in Larry Baer's first book, page 26, and on the cover of the September 1966 Guns & Ammo.
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08-10-2014, 11:25 AM | #4 | ||||||
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I wish our member with all of the Hedderly research material would publish. It should be beyond interesting. I have a picture of Hedderly holding his 32" 16 gauge, but that is the extent of my research material.
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08-10-2014, 04:09 PM | #5 | ||||||
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So do I. Funny how life's everyday things get in the way of fondest wished and dreams. When the wicker cornucopia finally spews forth, all of the above will come to pass and be well worth waiting for.
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08-11-2014, 11:57 AM | #6 | ||||||
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OK, I'll bite. What was the purported allure of using a long barreled small bore gun in this situation?
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08-11-2014, 12:06 PM | #7 | ||||||
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The Wigeon Duck Club was in the middle of the largest duck flyaway in North America.
Bagging birds was easy. 12 gauge was no longer a challenge. |
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08-11-2014, 12:45 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Parker salesman Arthur W. DuBray was known in California as "The Father of the Twenty Gauge". He was a popular hunter and competition shooter, but above all, a salesman.
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08-11-2014, 06:01 PM | #9 | ||||||
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Hedderly wrote often in "Forest and Stream" of his theories and often mentioned Parkers that he had built.Somewhere I have some bound volumes of F&S from about 1905 t0 1930 that have some of these articles.Wish he would have mentioned serial numbers...
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08-11-2014, 06:44 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Kevin I'd get to work on this if you want to be first to publish. A friend in California has all of the articles and is working on them literally as we speak. He's doing it from the specialty ammunition angle, but it's still all the same information.
Destry
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