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[QUOTE=Kevin McCormack;223430]Too many years ago now to remember exactly, I bought a #1 frame 20 ga. DHE straight grip SKBP / SFE with 32" barrels with no safety in very well worn condition from Butterfield's Auction in San Francisco. I was able to preview the gun beforehand live while on a business trip there, and the first thing I did when I got home was to order a PGCA letter.
Correction - this gun was not a straight grip but in fact a capped pistol grip. I confused it with another similar gun in the 153XXX SN range. |
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08-21-2017, 01:21 PM
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GT Herman was telling me this morning that there was a famous duck club in Illinois. All of the guns ordered for them were D grade, 32" 20 gauge, With NO safety, and that the Widgeon Duck Club guns had safeties, and on #1 frames. Seven were DHEs and there was a single BHE
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08-21-2017, 03:21 PM
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Maybe I have missed it on here, but never quite understood the duck club fascination with 20s.
Course I have never understood shooting anything smaller than a 12 anyway.
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08-21-2017, 04:31 PM
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I just like a lighter gun with a little less clobber on the back end.
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08-21-2017, 04:56 PM
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Edwin L. Hedderly was the editor of Western Field magazine, published in California. He wrote extensively about his smallbore, long barrel, Parkers. He got 32-inch barrel DHE-Grades in 20- and 28-gauge in 1911, then upgraded to 32-inch barrel A1-Specials in 16- and 20-gauge in 1912, paid for by advertising in the magazine. He ordered his guns with No Safety. His 16-gauge was pictured in Baer's books and was on the cover of the September 1966, Guns & Ammo --
Guns & Ammo, September 1966.jpg One of his A1 Specials from a period Western Field -- Hedderly A1-Special from Western Field.jpg Later he was on the California Game Commission, which may well have continued his influence on the movers and shakers in the clubs. |
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08-21-2017, 05:07 PM
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My but grip on that A1-S on the cover of G&A is well worn! I'm sure Hedderly gave it a lot of use.
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08-21-2017, 05:39 PM
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....and not a hint of bluing wear on the barrels. Makes ya wonder if he didn't do some stock alteration on his own.
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08-21-2017, 05:45 PM
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My guess is reblued barrels.
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