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I believe one of his articles and it may be in TPS as well atributed the looking back bird to the period of a specific engraver...
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08-25-2016, 03:57 PM
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That is very likely Bill.
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08-25-2016, 04:24 PM
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This has me very curious, could you show an example of "looking back birds"?
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08-25-2016, 04:44 PM
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Here you go
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08-25-2016, 05:38 PM
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Thats a good one Mills! You typically see it more common on the side plates!
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08-25-2016, 05:58 PM
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They are sharptail grouse.
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08-25-2016, 06:21 PM
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This is timely as I was just reading up on GH guns. I recently purchased a 20 bore with a looking back bird on the side. it is a 1920 era gun but the TPS states that the looking back birds were phased out around the turn of the century at the end of the "Harry" Gough era. I guess like many things the change was not a complete one.
This is a zero frame 20 bore.
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08-25-2016, 09:29 PM
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How are you able to determine those looking back birds are sharptail? Their bodies are very elongated and remind me more of some African birds not any bird I know of in N. America. With their long necks perhaps some type of goose.
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