Long FEs were offered on SBTs when SBTs were first offered

Crescent "New Trap" Hammerless Single in the 1898 Sears Catalog



The L.C. Smith Double Barrel Trap gun was introduced in 1920, with the 'Trap Package' including the (Wadsworth) flat beavertail forend (Schnabel forend available in 1922) with the reinforced barrel lug, Automatic Ejectors, Hunter One-Trigger, standard recoil pad, and two ivory sights BUT the FE was called "Special Forend for Trapshooting".

Extra length, extra wide, straight side BTFE with Ebony tip insert were later available



The c. 1921 H.& D. Folsom catalog No. 18 lists the Baker Expert Grade with a “new style” forend.



Folsom catalog No. 20 lists the Baker Paragon Double Barrel Trap Gun with the "Baker Perfect Grip" Fore-End



Parker first offered a trap style BTFE about 1923.

Ithaca first offered a BTFE on the No. 4 and higher grades in the 1925 Ithaca Gun Co. catalogue. The Ithaca NID Skeet Special was advertised in the July 1926 National Sportsman, only 2 months after the game was named!

Hunter Arms first offered the Streamline (Skeet Style) BTFE with introduction of the L.C. Smith Skeet Special in 1929.



A long Streamline BTFE was available later





A.H. Fox did not catalog a BTFE until 1931.

The 1926 Hunter Arms Price List DID list the "Beaver Tail Forend". Any one use that term earlier??






There were of course some weird FEs long before 1920

Freeman Swiveling Grip Ptd. 1909



"The handle is free to adjust itself to the position of the hand of the operator, instead of requiring as heretofore that the operator adjust his hand to the position of the barrel. Another advantage is that the handle is practically insulated from the barrel which becomes heated through repeated firing and therefore a cool grip is provided for the hand thus doing away with the necessity of wearing a glove upon the left-hand to shield it from the heat of the barrel" which "provides a suitable handgrip for firearms...to the end that they may be used with more freedom and range of movement than has heretofore been possible."

No idea what this was supposed to be

Feb. 1915 Forest & Stream
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