A Unique Double With a Parker

[Researcher]

The first Skeet Gun to appear in a Remington Arms Co., Inc. catalog is the Model 32 Skeet Gun in the March 1, 1934, catalog --

Model 32 Skeet Gun, March 1, 1934 catalog.jpeg

By the February 15, 1935, catalog the Model 31 Skeet Gun --

Model 31 Skeet Gun, Feb. 15, 1935 catalog.jpg

and the "Sportsman" Skeet Gun --

Sportsman Skeet Gun, Feb. 15, 1935 catalog.jpg

were added to the offerings. And the conventional wisdom seems to be that they introduced their Parker Skeet Gun in 1934 as well.

So, it seems that our U.S. manufacturers were actually getting on the Skeet bandwagon in the 1931 to 35 time frame.

[Researcher]

Rummaging through my files last night I discovered that Parker Bros. were actually advertising a .410-bore Skeet Gun by October 1933 --

.410-bore Skeet Gun ad October 1933, Field & Stream.jpg

.410-bore Skeet Gun, October 1933, Fireld & Stream.jpg

and Capt. Paul A. Curtis reviewed it in Field & Stream.

The Winchester Model 42 and the 3-inch .410-bore shell had been introduced and reviewed in the July 1933 issues of a number of sporting magazines.