Notting Hill 1879
https://books.google.com/books?id=T0U9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg

American Shooting Association Rules, "Sporting Life" 4-5-1890
https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/49988/rec/4

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Guns had to weigh < 8# at the 1894 GAH

Sporting Life. John L. Lequin, secretary of the Interstate Association, writes us under date of Feb. 25, 1898 as follows:
“We have received inquiries from most all directions recently from a number of shooters who are probably desirous of entering the Grand American Handicap next month, concerning the weight of guns, and whether the handhold and recoil pad will be counted as a part of the gun when weighed. The subject has been placed before the Tournament Committee of the association, which committee has decided that the guns will be weighed naked.” (The "recoil boot" and hand guard were not part of the total weight)

The Baker Gun Quarterly, Volume 5, No. 3, May 1900 had an article on the weight of Trap/Pigeon guns used by Capt. A.W. Money (8 pounds - Money used a Greener, Smith, and Parker), C.W. Budd (7 pounds 14 ounce Parker), H.D. Bates (winner of the 1900 GAH at Live Birds; 7 pounds 13 ounce Parker), R.O. Heikes (7 pounds 15 ounce Parker but after the GAH at Live Birds he went back to his Remington hammerless and won the 1900 [1st] GAH at Targets), J.S. Fanning (7 pounds 15 ounce Smith), W.R. Crosby (7 pounds 12 ounce Baker), and Col. A.G. Courtney (7 pounds 14 ounce Remington CEO).


"The Art of Wing Shooting: A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Shotgun", William Bruce Leffingwell, 1895
https://books.google.com/books?id=e34EmE3tkfkC&pg=PA177

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Monte Carlo

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