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In North America, the Interstate Association/ATA held the Grand American Handicaps right through both WW-I and WW-II. No skeet national championships were held in 1943, 4 & 5 though.
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Thank you for that British information lagopus.
Interesting that Belgian gun makers were producing sporting guns during the second WW.
Does anyone have any idea as to what was happening with French military contracts ?
The closest German made production date to WW II that I personally own is April 1936 on a Walther double.
I do believe that Wather only made those guns for about a four year period prior to WW II & then their plant went to military production.
There seem to be very few of those Walthers that survived Hitlers gun grab in Europe. Mine came though Papua New Guinea & must have gone there when still a very new gun. Quite a few German missionaries went to PNG in those days. One way to escape the dark cloud of impending war I suppose.
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Thank you for that British information lagopus.
Interesting that Belgian gun makers were producing sporting guns during the second WW.
Does anyone have any idea as to what was happening with French military contracts ?
The closest German made production date to WW II that I personally own is April 1936 on a Walther double.
I do believe that Wather only made those guns for about a four year period prior to WW II & then their plant went to military production.
There seem to be very few of those Walthers that survived Hitlers gun grab in Europe. Mine came though Papua New Guinea & must have gone there when still a very new gun. Quite a few German missionaries went to PNG in those days. One way to escape the dark cloud of impending war I suppose.
O.M Quite a few guns that survived Hitler's gun grab did not survive the gun grab by the American army of occupation. Not unusual for some of those guns to have made their way home in some returning GI's duffel bag.
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British troops were forbidden to take any weapons back at the end of WWII by the military authorities even though gun laws were quite lax in the U.K. at that time. I understand that they made a brisk trade in selling Luger pistols to the G.I.'s. I do have a nice Belgian 24 bore that I suspect managed to get smuggled in; probably by a high ranking officer that could get away with it. Lagopus…..
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In my research of the Money family, Capt. Albert W. Money of the American E.C. & Schultze Powder Company (aka Bluerock) and his sons BG Noel E. Money and Harold Money (De Shootinest Gent'man), I found that Noel served with General Allenby and the British forces in Palestine. From Noel's journals, within the week after the fall of Jerusalem, he and his fellow officers had shotguns and shells and were out hunting Chukars. When Noel's unit retired to Alexandria for the winter, he spent much of this time shooting ducks in the Nile delta.
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Had an uncle who was in Egypt in the late 50’s. Before they went over into the Russian sphere. His host was some big shot in the government who tried to talk him into going on a shooting trip up the Nile. But his wife and her sister were waiting for him in Paris and I think he was afraid they would shop too much.
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I can't complain about the shooting we had in Morocco for Barbary partridge (close relative of both redlegs and chukar) and coturnix quail. Returned home with both my first sxs and my first bird dog.
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