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Unread 12-29-2021, 08:50 PM   #11
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Now that you mention it Stan, it would make more sense that those chokes be used for doves.





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Stan;

I shot a lot of wild quail when I was a kid growing up in Indiana (with a 20 ga Wingmaster) and I have no idea why someone would order chokes reversed like that. Maybe the left barrel for singles that went up late? I don’t know what else Harry would have been hunting with such open chokes. Seem pretty open for doves.

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If it was intended as a quail gun I am surprised that the chokes would be "reversed" like that. I often use the tighter choked barrel on an incoming flock of doves, using the tighter choke farther out, then the more open on the second shot as the doves approach closer. But, I never considered having a gun with "reversed chokes". I simply go to the rear trigger first, then the front next. My dedicated quail gun is a 20 ga. Fox, choked .006" right and .016" left. I can see no reason to reverse the chokes in the two barrels, but who knows what one may have wanted?

It was actually Dunlap Hardware in Macon, GA (maybe a typo). It was owned by Samuel Dunlap who died rather unexpectantly in 1928, from angina pectoris according to the obituary.

‘Angina pectoris” sounds like a heart attack to me. I would guess he complained of chest pains and then died soon after. I imagine an autopsy wasnt performed and science wasnt what it is today so someone wrote that down as cause of death. It means chest pain.
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Harry definitely knew what he wanted. I did find some info on Mr. Kendall.

Harry Center Kendall Sr.
Born Macon, GA December 1865
Died: Macon , GA Nov 21 1914
Occupation: salesman for Power Oil.

Had a son, Harry Center Kendall, Jr who died in 1959.
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