Where is number 170703? An interesting history

[Flying8]

Thank you all for your replies. Mark, my letter order form is on the way! Thank you for the post with the order book information.
I found a Los Angeles Herald newspaper article from 1908 mentioning W.H. Wilshire leaving for a hunting trip to Calabasas. At the time, Calabasas must have been mostly all farm land or natural chaparral. I also found a page out of the magazine "Arms And The Man", dated June 12, 1913, that shows the results of a tournament and the winners. He placed 2nd in the 20 gauge overhead event, and placed in several of the other events. I underlined his name in the photo of the page below. I don't think he was related to the famous Wilshire, for whom Wilshire Blvd. is named after, but haven't confirmed that yet. Would be interesting to find out how Reid ended up with the gun. Wilshire would have probably been a bit older than him. But the two probably knew each other.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

I will do that but I think I will start a new thread that others can post to and search for serial numbers.
The format will be: [serial number] spaces [description of item:hang tag, letter, barrels, etc]

this will create searchable data in our forum. all one will have to do will be to click on the search box on the tool bar and type in their serial number of a gun they are researching. the more people who post items that they have, the better the database.

[Richard B. Hoover]

Majestic shotguns, ducks and Baseball greats. What a wonderful combination!!

Thanks for all that fabulous information.

[Bill Murphy]

George, I think that will work. However, I think you should request that our webmaster create a new subforum and also create a "sticky" at the top of the subforum to explain the search function that will help to locate particular serial numbers. Some discussion may be neccesary to name the new subforum.

[Fishtail]

Can you imagine the ruckus if two of today's baseball players were photographed holding the 'G' word and with birds they had shot?