A Special Gun on a Special Day

[Daryl Hallquist]

Originally Posted by Stan Hoover

Daryl,
That grade 5 you have there is beautiful, I don’t recall seeing engraving quite like that before, meaning the birds forward of the dogs in a circle. Have you encountered that layout before?

Wayne’s grade 6 also has a similar layout, maybe similar to the roundells encountered on Parker’s occasionally, that is a very nice layout if you will.

I have a grade 4 with elk/deer on the side panels and then a setter on the floor plate, and then a few grade 3’s with multiple species of birds on the sides, but no dogs.

Crass gun are gunshows in themselves. I don't know the engravers on the higher grades, but they seem to have fertile imaginations. I have not seen the bird/dog placement before that I can recall.