Capt. DuBray took Noel E. Money's order for a $400 Whitworth gun on February 9, 1895. The gun was to have 30-inch barrels, a slender grip, no safety, 2 3/4" chambers, scroll and flowers, no birds, trigger pulls 3 and 4, must be done by May 1. Serial number 81122. The 1895 GAH was 3-5 April at Willard Park, and Noel was noted as shooting a 7 1/2 pound Parker using a load of 48 grains of E.C. pushing 1 1/4 ounce of #7 out of a UMC TRAP shell. I don't know why the load was given in grains when E.C. was a bulk powder?!? Forty-eight grains would be in between 3 1/4 drams (47 grains E.C.) and 3 1/2 drams (50 grains E.C.).
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