Quail gun

[Harold Pickens]

I'm sure this was ordered as some gents quail gun.It was shipped to the Anderson Hardware in Atlanta, GA. in 1906. Ordered to weigh 6 lbs, 26 in Cyl/mod, an O frame 16 ga DHE. I bought it around 1990. I don't carry it much because I don't shoot it very well. A little short at 13 7/8 lop,adding a slip on pad increases the drop too much. I blew the covey rise, then a shot at a single, but finally managed to take this little cock over point out of a second covey.

[mobirdhunter]

It’s about how you take them, and that was in good fashion, Harold.

[Chris Pope]

With chokes like that and at 26" it would make one heck of a New England grouse gun! Almost perfect! Very jealous.

[Andy]

Harold that is a BEAUTY. Merry Christmas.

[William Woods]

Love the gun, but I have the same issue as you. Most guns are stocked to short for my 6'3" frame. I would have to have one re-stocked to fit. I would like to blame my poor shooting on poor gun fit. That being said; I will take the gun off your hands and one of the pups as well.

[Stan Hillis]

Almost without question that was ordered as a quail gun, in that location and time. There were huge numbers of quail around Atlanta in 1906. This picture was taken in Marietta, a "suburb" of Atlanta now, maybe just a few years after your gun was ordered. Yes, those are all quail.



I'd have to make that gun fit me, were it mine. Some way or anuthah.

[Bill Murphy]

Judge Morris looks like the typical "Hanging Judge".

[Mike Poindexter]

Couple of Remington 11's? Could be a Parker in the middle.

[Harold Pickens]

The stock oval is engraved:
Jo's. Gray, Atlanta. Ga.

[Harold Pickens]

A little post Christmas hunt. Had to pull the dogs off 2 Covies as I couldn't get in to flush. Dropped 2 birds in that impenetrable crap that the dogs thankfully retrieved for me. VHE 20, Doodle and Willie,