Suponski's Trap Gun Day One Grand American 1926

[charlie cleveland]

now thats a gun with a storey we can all relate too.. i guess if all these old parkers could talk wed be reading for a long while..at least this gun got to tell its storey.... charlie

[Autumn Daze]

Bill, I don't think we have anything on 221256. The Serialization Book dates the gun to 1927. I have always called this gun "The Murderers Row" gun after the 1927 Yankees. But if this date is correct 1927 would be a bit late. I have no doubt that this is a Saxby gun as you bought it from the estate.The gun may have been finished in 1926 and waited on the rack to be sold.

[Bill Murphy]

The 1926 scores at the Grand American could have been shot with another gun. Sparrow Young won the Grand American Handicap that year. The Springfield, Ohio shoot where Saxbe beat Sparrow Young was reported in the July 16, 1927 Sportsman's Review, so he could have been shooting the Parker at that shoot. If you look at the Stock Book records, book 76, which began in April of 1926, ended with serial #219,857. The Saxbe gun could have been in existence in the last part of 1926, possibly by the date of the Grand American, August 23 to 28. Saxbe was a high volume, high average shooter in those times and later reports probably carry his name. Bart's 199 in the preliminary A Class shoot won him third place. I don't know how he placed in the Grand American Handicap, but Bill Moore's report says Bart broke 98X100 in the second hundred of the second day of preliminaries.