[quote=Bob Cash]I'm confused again.
According to earlier posts, were not the attributes of a "SKEET" stamped gun those that made it useful for the game of Skeet?
What you're describing in your last post sounds like the characteristics of a particular "grade" of gun, not of a gun made for a particular purpose.
Ok ... maybe closing in on why Schwing referred to "Skeet Grade" -- perhaps because from 1936 on the defining characteristics of "Skeet" were "grade-like" in all respects except retaining the previous advertising and catalog naming? SOMETHING changed in 1936, and he does define furniture characteristics for the guns. With chokes entirely unsuitable for skeet, "Skeet Gun" seems a misnomer, while -- "Skeet Finish" really seems the equivalent of "grade".
But then Schwing shows choke tables with only WS chokes too -- apparently from the pre-finish/grade period when "Skeet Gun" was in fact defined by it's purpose for the game rather than by it's finish. It IS confusing.
Jay
