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03-03-2022, 05:56 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Garry tell us more about the 20!
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03-03-2022, 06:43 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Besides the fact that it was modified by Burt Becker, there was no other information about the 20...except I'm sure that I saw your initials engraved on the top tang.
Still, it was a sweet looking Fox, even if it did have a single trigger.
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03-03-2022, 07:33 PM | #5 | ||||||
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I wish that I was the owner of a 20 gauge that had been modified by BB. You could probably shoot crows at 80 yards with it. Good stuff Garry, thank you.
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03-03-2022, 07:48 PM | #7 | ||||||
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Was that 20 the quail gun he loved?
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03-03-2022, 07:59 PM | #8 | ||||||
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The 20-gauge is the Hal Howard gun that Nash referred to in his writings as the "big 20". See The Double Gun Journal, Volume Seven, Issue 4, page 21. Nash ordered it for his friend. The gun is 202651 shipped June 1928. It had a cheekpiece stock, CE-engraving, 30-inch barrels ordered improved modified and full and 28-inch barrels both bored improved cylinder.
Nash's "Burt Becker Quail Gun" is a 12-gauge. |
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03-03-2022, 08:02 PM | #9 | ||||||
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Having spent an afternoon with Bo Whoop during October of the year before it was auctioned at Julia's I can appreciate your infatuation with the great gun, and it's original owner. I have a set of all the reprints of seven of Nash's books and agree with Dean on his unique writing style.
I followed the whole affair from the time Bo Whoop was "discovered/outed" by Jim Kelly, until it was bought at auction by the son of one of Nash's hunting partners, then donated to the DU museum. I was very pleased that it ended up where it did, and had secretly hoped that it would, and would not end up in some collector's dark closet never to be seen again until said owner croaked. Bo Whoop and me in Savannah one October afternoon ...... SRH |
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03-03-2022, 08:09 PM | #10 | ||||||
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