1926 Trapshooting Video

[Dean Romig]

I suspect the O/U might have been a Marlin Model 90

[David Hamilton]

The second picture is not the same car, I can;t help with that ID but look at the square radiator. David

[TARNATION !!!]

David: Agreed. Also looks like a soft top. Hot-rod guys said same thing. Too blurry to hope to i.d. at least for my old eyes. The boys did have a pretty new car to transport them to the shoot.
Jack

[Alligator]

I just watched the video and the O/U I saw I don't think was a Marlin as I never knew one to have ejectors. You can see a puff of smoke from the breech but the shooter didn't pull the shell first. In 1926 it had to be European or and English gun. BTW has anybody heard of an Ire, or Ira Eyler who was shooting trap in the Baltimore area along about the same time. Lee.

[Bill Murphy]

Lee, did you ask me about Eyler before? Eyler, father and son, lived at 5313 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore. Reisterstown Road is Route 140 I think. In 1926, Sr. had a .9207 average on 1400 birds. Jr. had an .8886 average on 1150 birds.

[Bill Murphy]

'25 Franklin sedan had the rounded hood and suicide doors front and back. By '26, the rounded hood was gone. They were air cooled.

[Mike Murphy]

Nice film. I was however,struck by the apparent absolute lack of gun/shooting safety rules being observed. Walking around with closed actions, drinking while shooting, etc.

[Bill Murphy]

Fun to watch, huh? That's the way it was. Oh, that's the way it was ten years ago in some areas. I have been at drinking shoots, don't approve of them now, but then, it was what they did and I was free to go home.

[Bill Murphy]

By the way, I looked at the pictures of the Fox car in the DGJ Index article about Tom Kidd. Kidd's Fox car has a rounded hood like a Franklin, double suicide doors like a Franklin, and an air cooled engine like a Franklin. I have nothing more to say. Investigation continues. Who was first, the chicken Franklin or the egg Fox?

[Old and Reliable]

Originally Posted by Michael Murphy

Nice film. I was however,struck by the apparent absolute lack of gun/shooting safety rules being observed. Walking around with closed actions, drinking while shooting, etc.

--I never caught the Trap or Skeet "bug' but the Queen City Gun Club didn't allow alcohol on the premises- whether you were shooting or just watching. Wonder what these 'sports in suits' were drinking- I was going to guess "Old Overholt" but as some of these "Babbitt-look-alikes were wearing topcoats- perhaps as it was 1926 and the ill-advised Volstead Act was in force (or in farce)- it was maybe a fifth of "Old Overcoat" and the Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton look-alikes made both the shooting and the yachting party scenes great-- Lessee here- if Charlie Chaplin was shooting a 1926 mfg. Ithaca side-by-side at clays- would he then be "The Kid with a NID"?? If Fatty Arbuckle was shooting Trap with the second series of Ithaca SBTs- would he be "The Hick With a Knick" and the beat goes on!!!