3 frame parker history trail

[Bruce Day]

Close means a tight pattern.

Eastern Nebraska is not dove country. Clearly the 10s are fowling barrels. I think the 12s are for trap. By 1913 Nebraskans were favoring light 12s and 16s for the plentiful pheasant and prairie chickens. The chicken coop 20ga D hammer came from the Mahoney family of Crete.

[Bill Murphy]

Nebraska was a hotbed of big waterfowling guns. My 34" #6 frame Vulcan steel ten gauge, rebarrelled from a Twist steel eight gauge gun, came from about 180 miles down I-80 from the OP's gun in Cozad, Nebraska. It was owned by the Patterson family, very lightly mentioned in ATA average books.