doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Would anyone like to hear about Bo-Wup?

The Bo Wup would be especially valuable to a collector if he enjoyed his guns behind closed doors and happened to be named Bo Wup.

Addendum..whatever......Thanks to revdocdrew for posting Fox HE 12b Original 3'' chambers 32' Tubes, Sr No 27809,McIntosh recorded No 27800 HE 12b 32'inch Bbls. 2.3/4" chambers,oct 20 1922 for a Dr H H Liebold..as the 1st Production HE. Rowe Clark found no other HE Mods.prior to "My Old Beater".(No 27808 has no card in the file) 27810 was not a HE.Of course this was back in Nov.1993, and the"Hammering of Gunsmiths beating their Artifacts into "Parfoxelsielefeverithicawinch has still the reach its Zenith!...So by now ,maybe the records can show that 'WE' were all wrong with our Research!!Back in 2005, James Fender and 'Self" did a artical on No 27809,"Member of the Joe Knapp Club". MMcI & Self, Did shoot several of my Orig, 3inch Super X CARTRIDGES through the old Becker Bores....cc

For a long time no one thought the Tsar's gun really existed, or Lt. Dixon's $20.00 double eagle dented with the bullet that saved his leg. as to "Bo-Wup or Whoop" (as you prefer) I do not own it & do not know who does. But I have held it in my hands on several occasions & have a copy of a letter of authentication from the Fox historian stating that this was the serial number of the gun built by Burt Becker for Nash Bucingham.

I'll bring a copy of the letter (with the owner's name deleted) along with some pictures of the gun to Easton if anyone is interested. I found it fascinating.

George L

George, I heard the same story and was really excited to learn that it was still alive and well.
Back in the spring i should have went to look at it, knew exactly were it was. I thought i shouldn't say anything.
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There are quite a few guns out there that letter to Nash Buckingham, but are not Bo Whoop. I imagine many of his aquaintences asked him to order a gun like his (Bo Whoop) for them.

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I discovered at one time, although I can't locate my notes, that early HE production was in serial numbered "batches", I think of 25 guns each. I can't remember how many batches I identified before Fox started to number them randomly. I don't think the batches were as large as 50, or my 27,850 would not fit in. If batches were 50 each, my gun would be a continuation of the "original batch" starting with the first gun, 27,800. I am guessing that the first batch was 27,800 to 27,825 and the next batch began with my gun, 27,850 and went to 27,875. I may be all wrong about this, but some day I may find my notes if I took any. It was very clear in my mind when I was reading the cards. Just for your information, HE #27,850 has enormous Becker style bores but the order card mentions nothing about Becker or the size of the bores. Bill Murphy

This is a confusing thread.

Is George saying that the gun he has seen is the ORIGINAL Bo-Whoop that was lost from the car fender? Not the SECOND Bo-Whoop?

Boys, IMHO what we're apparently talking about is a STOLEN GUN. There was enough publicity at the time the gun was lost and ever since for any fool to know who the gun belonged to. It ought to have been returned to the rightful owner and still ought to be returned. Folks posting about personal knowledge of Bo-Whoop's existence and location are likely to be "interviewed" by the authorities or invited by subpoena to appear in possible civil cases...Geo

Not stolen, but left behind or misplaced. The thing belongs in NFM or at that place in Cody, Wyoming. It's practically an outdorsy treasure, so it's very selfish of someone to keep it behind closed doors. NOOOOT
You know, before the advent of the net boards I never heard of Nash Buckingham. I'm still a bit "foggy" on knowledge about him.