The Art of Wing Shooting

[Drew Hause]

The Art of Wing Shooting: A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Shotgun William Bruce Leffingwell 1895
http://books.google.com/books?id=e34EmE3tkfkC

JAMES R. STICE.
A few years ago an advertisement appeared in all the sportsmen's journals to the effect that the first Parker Hammerless made won the American Field Cup, emblematic of the championship of America. James R. Stice won the cup. He appeared among the galaxy of stars, and as a shooter he was inferior to none. He traveled from ocean to ocean with an aggregation of shooting experts, and when the final result was figured out, James R. Stice stood at the head of the list, for in the days and weeks of successive shooting he held the highest average of all.
Mr. Stice has retired from trap-shooting. In the days when he shot his thirty-four-inch ten-bore gun, there was no one who could beat him either at live birds or at targets. He is now settled at Jacksonville, Ill., and is engaged in a profitable business, participating but seldom in trap-shoots, and then only in the vicinity of his home.

[Don Kaas]

Big Jim also shot Edwinson Green guns for a short while under a promo dealer with the importer. They were very early A&D boxlocks imported by a sporting goods store in Jacksonville. The rib was engraved with their name (Hampel?? John Davis would know...) A 12 bore Ed. Green so marked was sold a year ago at Cabela's for circa $700 and has appeared on Gunbroker recently for about double that.

[Bill Murphy]

C. Strong of Jacksonville, Illinois received a 32" #4 frame Grade 3 ten bore in 1880. I'm not sure if C. Strong was a dealer or an individual shooter. The 11 pound #4 frame ten was the gun of choice for many competitors in the eighties. I can't find any Stice connection to this gun. I don't know when Bigfoot went to work for Parker Brothers. Anyone know?