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Unread 10-07-2021, 09:50 AM   #1
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Thanks Dave.

These pages from an early issue of “The American Rifleman” are what prompted my original questions.

I was going through one of Austin Hogan’s notebooks (that Pam gave me shortly after he passed) and, among other very interesting things, found these.



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A while back one of our members posted this hang-tag for a .410-bore --

235582 .410-bore, 2 1-2 inch, 3-8 ounce.jpg

It shows the 2 1/2 inch 3/8 ounce load. From the tables in the back of The Parker Story, this is the 206th .410-bore out of the 506 serial numbers listed.
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Curtiss may have been making reference to an actual Parker .410 "Skeet Gun" as being the first. Do we know if the Ithaca in reference was a true Skeet gun rather than simply a field grade?
Ithaca didn't actually catalog a "Skeet Gun" until their 1935 catalog, but they did advertise guns for Skeet as early as July 1926.

Skeet Gun Ad, National Sportsman, July 1926.jpg

But, from the get-go Winchester offered a Model 42 Skeet Gun --

Field & Stream, July 1933 pg 67.jpg

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