"Bo - Whoop" Has Sold

[MarketHunter]

The grouse guys would say I'm wrong of course, but eastern grouse hunters are a small fraternity. Waterfowling is nationwide, worldwide even, he's more well known by far than any vintage sporting writer then US ever produced. Give me one you think might be more beloved and more well known. Name a gun that you think is more famous, that more people have heard of. I'm interested in the opinions everybody, even the ones of wanna be cowboys from California.


DLH

[terc]

Destry, I am PA grouse hunter. I've never shot at a goose or duck in my life.
I have all of GBE's ,Spiller's, Foster's,....books. But I have to agree with you. I don't think any of there books compare to Nash Buckingham's writing. Even though I never hunted water foul, I feel like I have. Nash and Bo-woop have ment alot to me.
Dave

[Greg Miller CTGunLaw]

I would guess that more people know of TR's "Big Medicine" Winchester than of Bo Whoop, which had been all but forgotten outside of Fox circles.

And, if you went to your local gun show and asked a hundred people what was more valuable, Nash's BoWhoop or Colt Peacemaker No 1, I would guess most would take the original prototype for the Peacemaker, which I had in my possession for a very brief while when it was being auctioned by Christies back in the 1980s.

And, then there is the modified Winchester lever action that John Wayne used to swing around to load in the movies. An awful lot of people would recognize and want that gun.

Bo Whoop is an important part of Americana, but it seems to me most likely that a couple of addicted Fox owners fulfilled a dream by buying it at any price. May the Buyer enjoy it in good health. Should be good for the Fox Collectors to have the "legitimacy" of a Fox selling for real money.