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Thanks Steve I'll look into the Elsie's

I am an old hunter there Joseph (hope you are getting ready for the annual Xmas pageant down there at the Guiding Light Mission on S. Beale St., ho ho ho).. But I am also, like Audubon, a bird watcher, and ever since my boyhood days have been fascinated by aircraft and flight. To me, all the Airborne Taloned Patrol are the most gracefull killers God ever cooked up on His drawing board of Death- Swift, Silent, Deadly.

Hawks do way far more good than harm, their main food "targets' are field mice, snakes, rodents, dead or dying gophers and woodchucks, etc.

About 20 some years ago, when I had an earlier Johnny Stewart model game caller (that one played 45 RPM recordings) we went out for fox/coyotes in early Feb- snow, cold- I had the .243Win and my pal had a M12- we set up in heavy brush on the edge of a stand of pines, facing both the wind and a slight hill about 300 yards distant, behind that, a hardwood stand- Fortunately, I had set the speaker with a longer cord about 30 feet to my right- I started the rabbit squeal- short, faint, in a heartbeat a big redtailed hawk screamed in from out of nowhere and headed right towards that speaker in a limb- I lifted the gun barrel (not to shoot the hawk) and at that motion he went into a vertical power climb and disappeared- Most impressive thing I have seen in all my years hunting/shooting, even more so then the two buck deer fighting with their antlers tangled- about 15 years ago in MT.

We have lotsa "antis" patrolling our various sites today- many of the Audubon-its hate hunting, add to that the "yo-yo" factors, the graphic shirts and bumber stickers, etc- than some of our brother "hunters" feel they must display- I wish there had just been a foto of the shotgun- not a deceased red-tailed hawk-- and the shotgun is NOT an LC Smith with that style of fore-arm release latch- Crescent, Davis, Thomas Parker, Hopkins & Allen perhaps, but But not an Elsie..

The Deeley and Edge forend latch lets out a bunch of guns like Smith, Baker, etc. Still could be an Ithaca,Davis, or other similar gun.

Oh, they had bounties on foxes, too. Just bring the ears to the Court House and get your two bucks, which was big money, then.

I suppose there are a few people who could be offended by a photo taken 80-90 years ago, but I probably wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about it.

W B,

Maybe you should crop the photo and only post the gun so as to get more specific answers to your query.

JC

Crescent.

Probably a mid to upper grade A.J. Aubrey or Meriden Fire Arms Co. Their better grades offered Krupp barrels and had slim forearms like that and the sculptured profiles to the actions.

It struck me as Aubrey or Meriden too, but then my low level example has a grip cap and this looks like POW.

Aubrey/Meridan ?

After comparing the pic with some examples, I too think it is a Aubrey/Meridian Arms sourced from Sears and the tubes of Krupp steel from Belgium. What would aide in the elimination is that if is was known that it was either a boxlock or sidelock. The Greenpeace save the whales, I mean birds, comments are unfounded, out of context and way off base. Either the raptor was cutting into the Sunday chicken dinner or he was the white meat dinner himself. Hunters didn't put the raptors on the protected list as it was DDT, and possible a few other compositions. The raptors thrive well as do other predators since there aren't many folks eating coon and opossums and if you don't have predator control on a preserve or hunting area, you aren't going to have a lot of game.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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