Bill, Jim Fender is quite an interesting guy and is the consummate researcher. His articles are very in-depth. I've met him a couple of times at David's home.
I'm not knowledgeable on the Joe Knapp Club or anything associated with Knapp and was just repeating what I thought I had heard. So, are we to believe that the members of the Joe Knapp Club were given these medallions and had their own favorite gunsmiths fit them in the stocks?
I think there's more to the story - though Ken Spooner did exhaustive research in preparation for his book The Knapps Lived Here - I'll bet there's more to the story.
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Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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