Mystery Choke Devices

[Chris Riley]

Thanks to all for sharing. Have a 20ga Remington Sportsman with a Cutts Compensator that was a family gun. Between the design and appearance of this gun with the Cutts, the background and the old photos provided above, it’s living history for me and a window into the past and The Greatest Generation. Many thanks for the posts and pictures!

[Bill Murphy]

Daryl, I am quite a bit younger than Harry Wright, but I have been on that ferry, also with a few dollars, or less, in my pockets. The ferry was abandoned when I was 7 years old.

[Double Lab]

Over the weekend I saw a nice Rem. M11 with a cutts on it and it had a complete set of tubes in a wooden case so marked complete with the wrench.

[Bill Murphy]

"Daryl's next bird gun".

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

"Daryl's next bird gun".

It's a 12ga so the only birds I will be shooting with it would be geese, ducks or clays. It had some engraving on it but I got distracted by the wooden case with the tubes in it.

[Alfred Houde]

In an earlier reply I mentioned that the National Museum of the Marine Corps holds in their collection a toolbox with approximately 200 Cutts prototypes, shop copies, tools and gauges owned by Cutts.

After the holidays I heard back from my former colleague, and he provided some images. I include them here. These are classic Cutts prototypes and leads me to believe that the mystery device in question is Cutts handy work. I can't be 100% certain, but the consistencies are certainly there.

Cutts had their hands in a lot of things, so who knows? The fourth image is called a Bird Hawk, which I thought was pretty cool.

[Bill Murphy]

Alfred's second picture looks like my Cutt's 30 caliber compensator. I'm still looking for someone who can install it on a rifle.