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Old 11-19-2009, 04:46 PM   #1
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Do you mean to imply that Hentracks Hennessy didn't own a .410 Parker with single trigger and beavertail forend? I may sell my collection of Field and Streams, cheap.
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Do you mean to imply that Hentracks Hennessy didn't own a .410 Parker with single trigger and beavertail forend? I may sell my collection of Field and Streams, cheap.
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Hentracks may have been a Man of integrity, I don't know. We use to have another outdoor writer in Michigan that I met, who had the largest collection of outdoor periodicals I have ever seen. He used them regularly to plagiarize articles, how he didn't get caught is beyond me. He would write dead dog articles regularly, the mail he would get from some poor guy who just lost his Dog were in piles around his office. Those that knew him joked about the impending doom of another of his poor hapless imaginary dogs.

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Well Corey Ford only wrote one Parker .410 article, so I guess it was a true story. Whew!
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Dean,
I remember a while back you mentioned Spiller had worked in
the Portsmouth NH Naval Shipyard, do you know what years he
was in Portsmouth, and did he ever mention (in his writings)
shooting Trap at the Portsmouth Gun Club?...

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Dean,
I remember a while back you mentioned Spiller had worked in
the Portsmouth NH Naval Shipyard, do you know what years he
was in Portsmouth, and did he ever mention (in his writings)
shooting Trap at the Portsmouth Gun Club?...

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Hello Chris!

I don't really know the span of years he worker at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard but it was his career employment I believe until his retirement. Writing, raising gladioli, crafting violins, etc. were only creative interests of Spiller's which merely helped to augment his income.
I don't recall Spiller ever mentioning shooting at the Portsmouth Gun Club. There are countless articles he had written for various magazines, not only sporting magazines but other prestigious magazines of the day as well, which I certainly have not had the priviledge to read, but which may (or may not) include anecdotes of such shooting adventures. I'm sure he must have shot a round or two of trap at some time in his shooting days. His books "Drummer in the Woods" and "Fishin' Around" are full of such anecdotal trivia and I really don't remember if he mentioned trap shooting.
I wonder if the boys who regularly shoot at Major Waldron's nearby to Portsmouth ( Pete Lester, Bob Fabian, John Dunkle, Scott and maybe a few others) might know something of Spiller's haunts and shooting practice fields and ranges back in the thirties, forties and maybe even into the fifties.
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Dean,
Thanks for the great reply... The reason I asked is that I have
a pair of large original cabinet photos of the Portsmouth NH
Gun Club from November 1930, one of which shows several
members in a group with their shotguns, and some are clearly
Parker's... I thought perhaps with Spiller in the Portsmouth
area, he might have been one of the Parker shooters in the photo...

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One of my favorite quotes comes from "Tiger Hunting for the Man of Modest Means,"

"Our members wouldn't dream of shooting a cat in the lap of an elderly lady sitting in a rocking chair in her front parlor, provided the window is closed"

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