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In case no one has discussed, there is an interesting article on Sears-branded SxS shotguns in the lastest issue of "Arms and the Man." Pix and info, some of which contradicts my own understanding (an "understanding" derived mostly from heresay, gossip, and the rural version of "urban legend," I fear) of their Belgian-sourced doubles.
I don't know enough to analyze the overall quality of the article, but it certainly has a LOT of information for those of us who care about the "Guns that Won the Henhouses of the West."
Anybody reqd it? Accurate?
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Mike,
I am not familiar with the publication. Sears did source guns from Belgium. They also, over the years, carried most American brands as well as guns they produced.
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Pete, if you're anywhere near one of the "big box" bookstores (Borders or Barnes and Noble at least) you can check it out. The mag has been around forever but is strictly, I think, for collectors--most of us get one of the other NRA mags more focused on shooting.
One eye opener to me was that "T. Barker" was a Sears brand contracted from Belgian sources and apparently made to Sears specs of some kind. I'd always assumed that these were the MOST outrageously spurious of JABC. Apparently not quite.....
Gets into the various Meriden and Hunter Arms "cheap but sound" SxS variations, too.
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Is the magazine "Man at Arms" ?
Cheers,
Laurie
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Yeah, Laurie, the reason Pete wasn't familiar with "Arms and the Man" is because it doesn't exist. Sorry guys, "the little gray cells" just ain't what they once was.... (Homer plus Shaw equals gibberish.....). Still an interesting article if you like SxS clunks.
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Arms and the Man was the magazine of the NRA before The American Rifleman began in mid-1923.
I've got an 1899-1900 H&D Folsom Arms Co. catalogue and they list Thomas Barker and T. Barker, obviiously cheap Belgian doubles, for $9 to $12. The catalogue also states "More than 80,000 T. Barker Guns Now in Use." In the same catalogue they offer their American Gun Co. hammer doubles made at their factory in Norwich, Conn., for $15 with Twist barrels and $17 with Damascus barrels. Just for reference in the same catalogue, their price on an AE-Grade Remington Hammerless Double was $35.
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