From a doublegunshop forum post.....
"Here's the sketch Burt Becker gave to Nash Buckingham of Becker's career making guns: Buckingham asked Becker was “Where and under whom did you learn the gun trade?” Becker, who was born in 1871, replied that after going to school in New York’s Oswego County until he was 14 years old, he started to work in Syracuse, New York and “went to work for Dan Lefever and worked for him for 4 years & learnt my trade.” Becker went on to Batavia Gun works (1889), Remington (1900), where he made six “fine” doubles for exhibition at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Finally, he went to work for Fox “and made some good guns for him”. (As reported in the Lefever Arms Collectors Association March-April '08 Newsletter, quoting papers of Nash Buckingham in the collection of an LACA member)"
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"I'm a Setter man.
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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