I was in the navy from 1968 to 1989. The day after I came back from Vietnam, I went to Arden Sports and shelled out $288 for a used Browning Superposed Lightning trap gun, serial number 69172. No salt cured wood. i took it with me to Connecticut. I kept my guns at a range called Foxtown. it was about 25 miles from the sub base. The gentleman who operated it smoked smelly cigars. The guys who were stationed on the subs and the base shot the Winchester Model 101 and the Dalys made by Miroku. i was the only one whoi shot a Browning. Understandable when you consider how the Brownings had climbed up in price. i did a lot of shooting. i wasn't that good, but i enjoyed myself. I have a few memories i would like to pass on. I finagled a tour of the custom shop at the Winchester factory. The person i talked to told me they generally didn't do tours. I told him i wasn't going to steal any secrets. i was an admirer of fine guns. About an hour, later, i was in New Haven. The head of the custom shop greeted me and introduced me to these master craftsmen who worked with metal and wood. They showed me what they were working on and answered my questions. i was there for about an hour and came away with an appreciation of what they did. A friend of mine and i were at the range one Sunday and there was an older gentlemand, his wife, and grandson. He had a Parker single barrel trap gun, thast he had restocked by someone, halfway between Hartford and New Haven. i had never seen a Parker singlke barrel trap gun. I believe the barrel was, either, 32 or 34 inches. He was shooting handicap and pulverizing the clay pigeons. he let me and another sailor shoot it. i was amazed at how well it balanced. Beretta had come out with a singgle barrel trap gun. It was built upon a single barrel shot htey had. The opening lever was under ther bottom of the action. One of the guys had one that had cracked in the small of thed pistol grip. He proceeded to destroy the gun by smashing it against a telephone post. It was the second one he had bought. YUHou would have thought he would have boughta Browning BT 99 or Winchester 101 single barrel trap gun.
