A Special Gun on a Special Day

[Stan Hoover]

I decided to take a 2 hr walk with my 2 girls on Thanksgiving afternoon. I picked a new to me Crass from my good friend Walt Snyder. It is a special Jay Loy engraved gun with much detail.
I had a partial box of Western shells that I thought fit the gun pretty well, but unfortunately ignition was not dependable and they foiled my attempt to take the lone pheasant pointed by my girls. I’ll have to try again with different shells.

[Bruce P Bruner]

Extreme elegance right there. The vintage shells make for better display than function. Beautiful shotgun. Congratulations!

[Jeff S.]

Wow! Gorgeous gun Stan. Beautiful engraving and checkering. Please bring it to South Dakota.

[Bill Jolliff]

Originally Posted by Jeff Stegmeier

Wow! Gorgeous gun Stan. Beautiful engraving and checkering. Please bring it to South Dakota.

Yeah Stan. What Jeff said. Gorgeous gun.

Thanks for showing us.

[neill mcinnis]

That is a beautiful gun with marvelous barrels. It will be a joy in the field.

[Dean Romig]

A fabulous Ithaca in every respect!

I know of the reputation of Joseph “Joe” Loy but I haven’t hrard of a Jay Loy. Was that a typo?





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[J. Scott Hanes]

I have used old paper shells often on Grouse hunts with usually great success. I am curious, if you care to enlighten me, what the "fit" issue was? Not igniting? Not fitting the chamber?

[Bill Murphy]

What grade?

[Stan Hoover]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

What grade?

Murphy/Harold,

the water table is marked with a 1 over 12, Walt described it as Grade 7 engraving in his article with grade 4 checkering on the stock. This gun was obviously a custom order.
I looked over his Crass article that Wayne referenced, the article was not specifically about this gun, but he did include 3 pictures of this gun.

I did notice that in the article, the gold setter on the trigger guard is (upside down) or not situated as it is now. I'm scratching my head, it is definitely the same gun, but why the difference on the dog???

Stan

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Stan Hoover

Murphy/Harold,

the water table is marked with a 1 over 12, Walt described it as Grade 7 engraving in his article with grade 4 checkering on the stock. This gun was obviously a custom order.
I looked over his Crass article that Wayne referenced, the article was not specifically about this gun, but he did include 3 pictures of this gun.

I did notice that in the article, the gold setter on the trigger guard is (upside down) or not situated as it is now. I'm scratching my head, it is definitely the same gun, but why the difference on the dog???

Stan

Apparently somebody wasn’t fond of the original orientation of the gold setter…





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