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Bob did he ever use the Sterlingworth in any shot gun weddings ?

My grandfathers gun was a Remington model 11,Dad's are model 12 and elsie,all in 16 guage.

Thanks for clearing that up, Miller. I just couldn't remember which catalog had the A.J. Aubrey guns. I remember when getting a shotgun by mail order was as uncomplicated as getting set of wiper blades....

If the M/W western field has the mallable frame then it is the;
Ithaca, Western Arms Long Range Gun.
Essentially the same as the NS I believe except for the frame.
Miller

"working man" = Salt of the earth. Def./People who are salt of the earth are decent, dependable and unpretentious.

...to quote dubbletrubble. I might also add the term "working man" was associated with anyone who labored with his hands. For further clarification listen to a few Meryl Haggard tunes. My grandfather's guns were a M-73 Winchester and some unknown variety of SxS. I have the '73 and wish I had the double.

Well, my father was orphaned in the year of the stock market crash, 1929. He laid in a orphanage for 18 months (and, to this day, has a flat on the back of his head from spending so much time in a crib) until he was placed in a foster home. The family never adopted him, for the simple reason he represented a check every month, however, his "adopted" father and grandfather loved him to pieces from all accounts. His father was employed at a Standard oil station, and delivered fuel oil, and his grandfather was a shoemaker. Salt of the earth, for sure.
His Dad's gun was a H & R single in 12 gauge. I know for sure he told my dad he couldn't afford a Winchester 37, and didn't need more than one shot. The gun may have been purchased used-most of the family's guns were. When my father was old enough, he was given a used .410 version of the same gun, which his father had worked a few weekends on a road sign building crew to earn the money for. Dad also had a nameless bolt action .22 single shot of some sort. My dad's father always said the depression "hung around" St. Paul for longer than it did the rest of the country, but I don't know why.
Dad's Grandfather gave to my dad a steel barreled double 12 of some sort, that my dad attempted restocking for a high school woodshop project. Dad says it was low end, and had few, if any markings. The fact it was given to him shows it was pretty well used up by the early 1940s. The restock turned out quite nicely, and dad traded it, and a 'coupla years worth of newspaper route and after school cannery job money for a Remington 241, in about 1946. He still owns that gun, and claims it is the sole reason he came out of Marine Corp boot camp with a PFC rank-he could shoot better than anyone there, including his instructor.
My Dad says the war years were good to him, as he always could find a good job, and there were plenty of hunting opportunities-I suppose everyone else was in the service and a 14 year old looked good if there wasn't anyone else around to work. A 241 was not a cheap gun. Dad shot everything with .22s, as the ammunition was easier to come by for him during the war (neighbors often would trade him .22 rounds for a few of whatever he shot.)

Dad didn't get a repeating shotgun until after he made Sergeant, in about 1950. But, he never looked back. He has several O/Us but, just about everything else is an autoloader. And those are the ones he uses.
Best,
Ted

Recoil Rob & 2-Piper: my M/W&Co. Wesern Field is definately a Nitro Special as the serial number is over 200,000 and the Western Long Range guns numbers did not run concurrently with the N.S. Removal of the floor plate quickly revealed a forged, steel frame and the attendant milling cuts for action parts. Also, the NS had a different trigger guard and top lever than the Western Long Range gun. Chopper

Ted

Great story on your Dad. Our country's foundation was built by such men.

My Dad passed at 97. A few years before, he would still be found in his tan work clothes and work boots, with either a shovel in his hand in the orchard, or tending his bees. He ended active duck hunting at 87, after being yelled at for skyscraping, as he put it. - - Figured he was losing some acquity in judging range, so felt this is what a sportsman should do.

In his mid years, he accrued sufficient money to buy whatever, in terms of guns, but pretty much always stuck with the field grades. Felt they could do everything one would want a gun to do, if he did his part. Because he loved to hunt, he hunted - and we ate venison, duck, quail and smoked goose as a matter of regular meal fare. I recall gathering his beloved VH 16 and 12 Trojan when we cleared the old house out - - Carefully stored, fastitiously cleaned and showing use but not abuse. I think of him as another one of these working men who's shoulders we stand on today.

Chopper; Sure sounds like a Nitro to me. My comment was based strictly on "IF" it had the mallable frame.
Miller

I've always really disliked that term, "working man". Its a divisive discription that attempts a sort of reverse predjudice. Its meant to seperate people into groups that have no bearing on how hard they work or what kind of firearms they purchase. "I'm not like you.....I'm just a working man." "I'm a working man.....I don't know about that kind of stuff." It is a meaninless term if you think about it. John M, the finest mechanics now wear gloves!. Sorry for the rant.