Butcher- BAKER- Candlestick maker?

[Jack Kuzepski]

Jack,

That looks like a R grade Baker. Although if your answer came From Daryl Hallquist, I'll defer to his opinion.

Jack Kuzepski

[TARNATION !!!]

I'll take a look at their site. Yes, you have the right Daryl. Here are the rest of the pics I have.

[Old and Reliable]

Originally Posted by Mark Landskov

Francis, information on Baker guns seems sketchy. Your 4 page article would probably be the motherlode of info compared to what I have found! I managed to narrow down the manufacture date of my Baker 10 gauge to 1893, compliments of Daryl Hallquist, who is a major contributor to the L.C. Smith and Baker fraternities. My 'New Baker' was a budget priced gun, $30.00 in 1893, but is very well made. The Baker company made no apologies for the lack of fine polishing and fit like their higher priced models. Mine is used, but not abused. It was well maintained and shows lots of twist pattern, with a bit of wear at the muzzles. It is heavy, and falls between the Parker 3 and 4 frames in size.

I made Zerox copies of the 7 pages, articles on both sides of 5 pages- on the Baker- send them to Mark as per his request- if anyone else wants to see this fine article from the 1989 Shooter's Bible, I'll be glad to make extras and send them along- via USPS

[Bindlestiff]

Be careful, that is probably protected by copyright. You would not be the first person here to hear from a copyright holder about possible infringements.

[Old and Reliable]

Originally Posted by Robin Lewis

Be careful, that is probably protected by copyright. You would not be the first person here to hear from a copyright holder about possible infringements.

This wasn't copied from a book, it was copied from a pulp paperback Shooter's Bible 1989- millions of copies sold- and I never took credit for writing it- Dr. Jim Cassada, a fine Southern gentleman writer from the South- wrote it--how can he sue me for copyright infringement on something that public and that old sent to a brother PGCA member (and Veteran) and not done for profit- You aren't a lawyer by any chance, are you???

[TARNATION !!!]

Not a lawyer but look at the issues from time to time. Copyright is a complicated issue.

You not taking credit for writing it is not a copyright issue - that would have been plagiarism.

Whether or not a motive is for profit, it is the act of making the copy that is arguably the infringement.

Doesn't matter if it's a book, a magazine, a cd or whatever, copyright is held by the author. That person can grant permission for the work to be copied (sometimes for a fee).

Once the author is dead, the material moves into the public domain - but not until the author has been dead for something like 70 years I think.

Then there's the whole "fair use" greyish area

I doubt that the author will want to sue anybody over these copies and the copyright police won't come knocking but such remedies are available.

Pretty hard to monitor all the photocopiers, video recorders, mp3 recorders etc etc etc. that are an accepted technology. Probably a "bazillion" potential infringements on any given hour around the planet. How does anyone enforce that? Big time piracy for profit is the action most likely to be pursued.

I think the DI might say "stand easy"

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Cheers,
Jack

[Old and Reliable]

Wisdom and insight from the North- and 'stand easy' or the second phase- 'stand by to stand by' works for me. Now that I reflect- if I had just sent him the entire heavy pb book w/o Zeroxing the baker pages- no problemo- Just trying to do a fellow Veteran and PGCA amigo a favor- next time-- I'll just call him on his cell phone and read him the text- verbatium--