Charlie Hunters Big Gun returns to the Old Dominion

[Mike Franzen]

Nice gun Craig. What’s the story on Charlie Hunter?

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Mike Franzen

Nice gun Craig. What’s the story on Charlie Hunter?

It’s “my under standing” he had a fair amount to do with the Shennendale Gun Club getting to where it is now but back 35 years ago , he also was big in DU or so I was told . He and his wife had/have a museum in Staunton VA and quite an accumulation of stuff .

[Bill Murphy]

Craig, how close are you to getting a PGCA letter on that great gun? I can't wait to see what the first owner had in mind for a gun with 11 pound, 5 ounce barrels. I know that my first eight gauge Parker hammer gun had a punt swivel in place of the forend when I first took it home. I later replaced the punt fitting with a real Parker forend. It was a Tryon gun that never got farther from the Tryon store than the shore of the Susquehanna River, near where I found it. Some of these big guns never got far from their original place of purchase.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Craig, how close are you to getting a PGCA letter on that great gun? I can't wait to see what the first owner had in mind for a gun with 11 pound, 5 ounce barrels. I know that my first eight gauge Parker hammer gun had a punt swivel in place of the forend when I first took it home. I later replaced the punt fitting with a real Parker forend. It was a Tryon gun that never got farther from the Tryon store than the shore of the Susquehanna River, near where I found it. Some of these big guns never got far from their original place of purchase.

I got the letter from the Chuckster a few days before the auction . Well as I can remmember the gun initially went to Kansas City . Wasn't any mention about much else if my memory serves .

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Some of these big guns never got far from their original place of purchase.

My first 8 seven frame was purchased from a member in the southwest and I believe I was told he got it from someone in the state of NY don't remmember where the letter said it went intially .

My hammerless was initially shipped to a wood company in the panhandle of Florida with specifications for it to pattern buckshot well . I bought that gun from a dealer in Indianna or Illinois forget which .

The Charlie Hunter gun as stated earlier I believe the letter said Kansas City and then at ome point Staunton VA . Now it's in central VA .