John Phillip Sousa AAHE Pigeon Gun

Who cannot recognize a Gershwin tune or a Sousa march. Nice to know that a fine AAHE is now in the care of a person who will appreciate it. I wonder where Mr. Sousa's Ithaca shotguns are now? I have seen two LC Smith shotguns that may well have also belonged to this great composer and Trapshooter- at Quantico in the USMC National Museum. Mae and I visited there last June/July (2009) after our summer trip to: Gettsysburg, Valley Forge (and Devon), Wilmington, Dover, Ocean City, Norfolk and then Williamsburg VA-

Of course, you can't see them up close, any more than the guns on display out in Cody. When I was at Quantico years ago, Skeet was more popular, although they had a Trap range, with the older pipe, rod and lever linkage system and a Trap Boy in the house doing the loading. Reading the cycle of that older style mechanism would often give the shooter 25 straight-away targets at 16 yards.