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I have known several Farmers who shot doubles in my life & some of them some pretty nice one at that. Personally "IF" I had to shoot a pump I would as soon have a 16ga 97 as any I know, The 12's are a bit heavy. I actually came to prefer doubles while growing up on a small part time farm. My dad was a factory worker & small farmer.
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I never met a farmer with a double. Never. My Grandfather was a farmer in Independence Township, Hennepin County, Minnesota, and after a brief affair with one of those new fangled Winchester Model 1897s, he traded it off at Kennedy Bros. in 1901 for a used 1890 vintage heavy PH-Grade Parker Bros.  and used it until his death in 1954. My uncle, born the year Grandpa got the Parker, used it for another 30 years. As to the No. 1E NID Super-Ten in question, we know from Walter's search of the records for Frank Srebro's DGJ article on the NID Super-Tens that there were around 300 less Super-Tens built than Magnum-Tens. Even if that gun has a 1929 serial number, it must have languished in inventory a while, as the Ithaca "bridge trestle" recoil pad didn't come out until 1931-2. Likewise, the Howland-designed non-selective single trigger also first appears in the 1932 Ithaca Gun Co. catalogues. I'm guessing that's either a between the wars or shortly post-WWII photo. Looking at the clothes, and also the fact that Iowa didn't have a pheasant season until 1926. I'd guess Minnesota didn't have one much before that; maybe not that soon. I used to hunt with a farmer--one of the most serious pheasant hunters I've known--who owned a Fox, a Parker, and an Elsie. Hunted with all of them.
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My story about that picture was in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Eleven, Issue 3, pages 186 and 187. The double my Father is holding is a Remington. Here is another picture I've posted before of my Father at King Lake in Minnesota with Grandpa's Parker Bros. in October 1932 --  Still using live decoys.
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My story about that picture was in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Eleven, Issue 3, pages 186 and 187. The double my Father is holding is a Remington. Here is another picture I've posted before of my Father at King Lake in Minnesota with Grandpa's Parker Bros. in October 1932 -- Still using live decoys. Nice picture. I wouldn't think there were too many Boykins in Minnesota in 1932! Love that Phez pic too.
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Great photos, Dave. Reckon that's a toller greenhead in the second pic?
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Boykin or AWS? AWS were very popular in that part of the country back then.
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Boykin or AWS? AWS were very popular in that part of the country back then. There you go. I am ignorant of the AWS. I really don't think I've ever seen one here.(never duck hunted much) Sounds like a boykin with attitude and a rudder.
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The AWS can be a great little dog. Having said that, my Mom had one that couldn't swim!
It was OK, it was Mom's dog.
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AWS were around long before the Boykin. Official state dog of Wisconsin. I'm not a waterfowler either, but I hunted pheasants with a friend who had a couple AWS. Used to be a lot of people in the Upper Midwest who wanted a small dog for waterfowl went that route. And they could also do double duty on pheasants.
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My Father and Uncles always referred to them as Irish "Rat Tailed" Spaniels, but in the pictures they look like American Water Spaniels to me?!? They always referred to the live decoys as "Dad's English Call Ducks."
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