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Super display, Mike. (The guns are OK, too....open PGs, downright edible wood, Fox mechanicals--if I sound like a menu, it's getting close to lunchtime; besides "Lowell started it." "Pot-luck dinner guns," indeed!).
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Tato, that's a chukar and a Hun, right? (I've been out of Idaho so long I can barely recognize my old foes...). When I lived there I had an LC Smith Featherweight Field 16 that had a high rib and was also US (Army Air Corps, no AF then) proofed. It had come all the way from the Syracuse Army Depot to the Idaho Panhandle only to get traded for a rebuilt engine back in Upstate New York in one of my dry spells ten years later. Damn shame; I made the best shot I've ever made with that Elsie; a double on supersonic chukars coming down canyon straight at me. Took one coming and one going; gun was IC/Very full.
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Ortolan,
Yeah, Doc shelled out a big wad of kale on the Watson 2 bbl. set. It's a super gun, but my choice whould have been the Woodward 16 bore, if I had the means.
Best,
Curl
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What a great thread!  Keep those pics coming (just wish I had something worth contributing :rolleyes: )
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A little Merkel 201EL Luxus. Sorry about the hang tag, this was the ad photo I bought it from several years ago. 
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Originally posted by Mike Armstrong:
Tato, that's a chukar and a Hun, right? (I've been out of Idaho so long I can barely recognize my old foes...). When I lived there I had an LC Smith Featherweight Field 16 that had a high rib and was also US (Army Air Corps, no AF then) proofed. It had come all the way from the Syracuse Army Depot to the Idaho Panhandle only to get traded for a rebuilt engine back in Upstate New York in one of my dry spells ten years later. Damn shame; I made the best shot I've ever made with that Elsie; a double on supersonic chukars coming down canyon straight at me. Took one coming and one going; gun was IC/Very full. Correct you are, sir! The Chukkar meat was as white as a supermarket chicken. It's been one of the best years ever for Idaho Quail, Chukkar, and Hungarians. You are also correct about the AF being the Army Air Corp during this time. I guess I used the term "USAF" because that is what the proof shows (actually USA-F). I'll re-post a picture of the proof. The folks on the LC board said that the identity of the "F" is still a mystery. Regardless, I practically feel "not worthy" to post among such fine classics! Hopefully, I'll get a chance to own a premium grade American or English double at some point. 
1941 LC Smith Field Grade
"Flaming Bomb"
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Tato, I think an LC Smith owner can hold up his head in any company.
I agree that the chukar is the best eating bird--too bad you have to risk snakebite, falling off the mountain, and either dying of thirst or hypothermia to get 'em on the plate. I used to recommend a diet of pure chukar to those who wished to lose weight...fast!
That USA-F stamp is a puzzler. If it were USA-FA, I'd have a theory. But it clearly isn't.
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1933 Merkel 16 S x S new case colors by Don Menk 
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1920's Max Fischer 16 ga round body, 5 1/2 lbs shoot all day 
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J P Sauer 20 ga Royal, original case colors, sweet. 
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