Bill, when I owned the Mellman gun, I found that Mr Mellman shot at the Kearney and Grand Island, Nebraska, gun clubs. Grand Island was more populous and on the Platte River, then said to be a mile wide, with interbraided channels, full of islands, and as much of a waterfowl hunting area as the well known eastern seaboard and California central valley areas. Many nice Parkers were sold into the area.
No Mellmans are left in the immediate area that I could find. Mr Mellman owned several Parkers and had his name engraved on the barrels.
The area was and remains prime ground for upland bird hunting. A certain little D grade top lever hammer 20ga that you saw recently came from there. Farmers used to pick up eastern hunters at the Union Pacific railroad station and drive them around the prairies in horse drawn wagons while shooting prairie grouse.
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