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Unread 01-19-2012, 09:59 PM   #7
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The 'mold was broken' when Nash passed on to that big Beaver he loved so well back in March 1971. There are many gentleman sportsmen with the Southern gentility, inbreed good manners and safe gun handling habits extant even today- perhaps even a few members of this most august group-- BUT- taking a heavy 32" Full choked Fox HE 12 and smashing 98/100 skeet targets in 1928- the first time ever on a skeet field- that is, as they say- a "whole nother ball game indeed".
Ah yes I read that a number of years ago but just reread it a couple nights ago in George Bird Evan's book about Nash Bukingham's letters to John Bailey !

Over the years when I shot competitively I shot a fair number of 100 straights with the 12 , 20 and 28 and a large number of 98 or better with the 410 !

IF I'm not mistaken in Nash's letter to John Bailey he stated they were shooting light field/target loads when he did this feat . However if I'm not mistaken the constriction in his barrels would now be called extra full . Not to mention the shear weight of his Fox . I think my old Kreighoff K-32 with Kolar tubes barely weighed 9.5 pounds , I'm sure that fox was 10 or more !

I've often wished I could see in person a Burt Becker shotgun be it a quail gun or a magnum !
Thru reading about Nash I learned he actually had three Burt Becker choked guns !
BoWhoop , the second Becker magnum and a 12 gauge he had choked specifically for quail .
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