Mystery Choke Devices

[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.