Mr. Murphy;
Might be just me, but I could swear there is some traces of the checkering pattern still showing on Hamerbacks gun. Don't seem to be a "uncheckered one". Appreciate your input on our gun. Do you think it would letter??? Or should we even bother --- would sure hate to find out it is a counterfit after all these years. (And if it was, I would still treasure it just the same.) There are no markings at all on the end of the box, by the way. Hope to someday maybe find the "paperwork" for it --- she saved everything, and it is probably still down there in the old house somewhere.
And to Mr. TW in Texas ---- Thank you Sir for the nice write up. The 16 is a 28 inch modified, --- just about right for what my grandad and his buddies hunted. That being mostly pheasants and rabbits - the railroad ditches south of town used to be loaded with them. (Went back there to pick black raspberries this past summer, and the right of ways along the tracks had been sprayed with something that burned them down to bare dirt for about 30 yards on each side. Even knocked the leaves off of some of the trees that were close enough.) They also shot many, many ducks in the cornfields -- the flocks of ducks would come up from the bottoms, especially on a west wind and work the fields in the evenings, and all you had to do was lay between the rows and wait. Can't remember the last time I saw a flock of ducks working a feild, but there aren't many cornfiels that don't get fall plowed now. So... that's what he hunted. Also a round or two of trap when they had a few extra bucks later on. They all talked often of the depression and not being able to get shells durring the war, and making every shot count. That they did.
As always, hoping this finds everyone well;
Kraft
