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#540807 03/12/19 03:43 PM
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So bird season is over, many of us are snowed in, and it's raining here in the desert. How about we try to ID some of the shotguns in these vintage images. Unfortunately, I don't have locations nor dates for most. Feel free to add an image, but please number so contributors can indicate which pic. This might keep the combatants occupied until spring turkey season smile

#1 I'm betting a Baker or Lefever. Definitely wearing a "recoil boot"



#2 is Grover Cleveland in 1907 with a one-of-a-kind American double



#3 Aldo Leopold in Sauk County Wisconsin



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#4 a 4-fer. Clark Gable in 1935



#5 Carole Lombard in S. Dakota



#6 Clint Eastwood's "Westley Richards" in "Unforgiven."



#7 John Wayne's "Greener" in "Big Jake"


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Aldo's gun on the left is his Fox...20 ga I believe.

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Stephen Grover Cleveland- LeFever 12 gauge-- Aldo Leopold in WI- one of the two shotguns is his 20 gauge A.H. Fox-- John Clark Gable 1935- the O/U is a Remington M32-only made in 12 gauge-- Just a "SwAG" on the side-by-side with the beavertail forearm, but I'll guess a Parker- possibly a skeet gun- Not enough detail to guess the third shotgun-possibly a pump- both Gable, Gary Cooper and Phil Harris shot either M12's in 28 gauge, and or- M42 skeet guns. Cooper's wife Veronica Balfe Cooper (aka- Rocky) was Calif. State Women's skeet champion for most of the 1930's--Carole Lombard in S.D. with nice GSP-- maybe one of Augustus Pachmyer's re-stocked double gun- DT-- but the Germanic "schnoble" on the forearm is a suggestion. Clint's 10 bore hammer gun- more likely a Colt--similar to that used (briefly) by Steve McQueen in the early scene of "The Magnificent 7"-

Just as a side-bar-- Carole Lombard gave Clark Gable a DHE 28 gauge Parker- most likely ordered from Alex Kerr's sporting goods in LA-- around 1938-- Not sure of the sn. or the barrel length or chokes- if I had to guess, I'd guess a DHE skeet grade Parker--


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#3 a winner!
"Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work" by Curt D. Meine. p. 193 excerpt (time period is 1921) - The Tome Club became Leopold's main hunting grounds...Aldo indulged in a new shotgun, a beautifully engraved, 20 gauge, double-barrelled Ainsley H. Fox that cost the princely sum of three hundred dollars.
Researcher no doubt knows the grade.


#8 "Ty Cobb Presented With a Target Buster", Du Pont Magazine, August 1915



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#9 Hemingway and Gene Van Guilder at Sun Valley



#10 At Club de Cazadores del Cerro, Rancho Boyeros, Cuba


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Nope on Grover, Carole & Clint.

#4 Yes, Remington 32 AND his Model 21 and M12. Not sure about the double on his left arm.



Gable also had a Parker BHE 32" barrel with BTFE 28g SN 201993 shipped 6-13-23 (obviously purchase later), a 32" BHE 20g, a DHE given him by Joan Bennett, and a VR A-1 Special purchased at the New York Sportsman's Show, from the Remington rep Cliff Baldwin, after the NYC premier of Gone With the Wind Dec. 19, 1939. He later gave the A-1 to Gary Cooper.
His primary skeet gun was a Cutts equipped Remington M11


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#11 How about a double rifle? Kapititi plains, Kenya, 1909


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#12. Likely someone here can ID the grades of the Parkers, and might even have one of them. Is Nash holding a Winchester Repeating Shotgun Model of 1893 or 1897?



#13. Here's a hint, and ID the guns and the shooters; "The 4 B's of Ogden Utah"






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Didn’t Grover Cleveland have a Parker with 34” barrels? That gun is not his Lefever.

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