A Unique Double With a Parker

[Researcher]

Here is the Ithaca ad from the July 1926, National Sportsman --

The Ithaca Skeet Special July 1926 National Sportsman.jpeg

I'm guessing that a modified and full choked 20-gauge didn't prove to be a very satisfactory skeet gun!!

Savage cataloged the Fox Skeeter in 1931 --

Fox Skeeter 1931 Retail Catalogue.jpg

For 1932 and 1933 they offered a skeet version of the Trap Grade. For 1934 they offered Fox Special Skeet Grade --

Fox Special Skeet Grade.jpg

Then for 1935, they introduced the Skeet & Upland Game Guns in an SP-/SPE-Grade version --

SP Grade Skeet & Upland Game Gun 1935 retail catalogue.jpg

and a Fox-Sterlingworth version --

Fox-Sterlingworth Skeet & Upland Game Gun 1935.jpg

The Olin brothers must have gotten Winchester going on a Model 21 Skeet Gun in 1932 --

Model 21 Skeet Gun ad Jan. 1933.jpg

as this magazine ad from the January 1933 attests. The Model 21 Skeet Gun is the only one in the 1933 Winchester catalog. During 1933 the Model 12 Skeet Gun and the Model 42 Skeet Gun are introduced, and first appear in the 1934 Winchester catalog.

[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.