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http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1906/VOL_46_NO_18/SL4618014.pdf The Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y., has issued the following announcement: The Lewis and Clark Exposition has recently honored our product by awarding a gold medal on both the Smith gun and the Hunter One-Trigger. This medal is the highest award given and we feel particularly proud of the achievement, as the committee conferring the honor was composed of gun experts and the decision was given in our favor in the face of the keenest possible competition. Our entire product during the year just past has attained successes of far-reaching importance. At this Christmastide we would extend to you our message of "Peace and Good Will." May 2016 find you brimming with vigorous health and strength, and assuring you of our kindest best wishes, we remain, Yours very truly, The Hunter Arms Co., John Hunter, Secretary.  And for "Peace and Good Will" for DoubleGunShop Forums
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With those with bad eyes.
"Fred Gilbert made quite a run of high averages during December. At St. Marys, Pa., December 4; at Lan- caster, Pa., December 6; at Bridgeton, N. J., December 7; at York, Pa., De- cember 13, and Lebanon, Pa,, December 14, he carried off high honors. He used a Parker gun, Du Pont powder and Leader shells."
Got to love the Parkers and LC Smiths!!! They were there in the fight with the best England and France had to offer when everyone used a double.
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In my opinion, the greatest of the turn-of-the-century Live Bird and Inanimate Target shooters was Fred Gilbert. He used a Smith when he came from Iowa to win the 1st DuPont Live Bird Championship in 1895, then switched to a Parker after the 1899 GAH. Another great was W.R. Crosby who started as a Baker rep (the only Baker rep that I have found) then switched to a Smith until 1906 when he went to a Parker. He shot an Ithaca 5E SBT at the end of his career. More here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k2_50HPC18lm2BZmH5SlgYSptcngORnmLTZ5iiW-cpc/previewBTW: the American team, mostly using Parkers, soundly defeated the best of England and Scotland in the 1901 Anglo-American Match. After the win, the Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris matches were cancelled  https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=185YOyQl7GIB9OYLs9Hr3tnMLHqs4rjEdR4j_E9l4HLw
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I like the add for ferrets. 12,000 rat killers. Just a name, town and state. Much simpler times when a letter sent across country would find the right person without gps and computers.
My grandfather was a rural mail carrier back in the 1920s and 1930s. He would get a letter with a cryptic address like; the old colored man living next to the spring in Costen Station. No name, no address just a vague description of who and where. From that he could figure it out and deliver it to the man. Then he recounted how the man could not read and he'd stop and read the letter to the fellow.
Illiterate former slaves were common in those days most in their 70's or 80's. We had a small area of shacks about a dozen families lived out their days after they were set free on a farm we bought when I was a very little boy Those little shacks were long abandoned. Most were single room shacks about ten by ten with a small wood stove, pump outside and privey out back or single pump for them all. It's been almost 60 years and little boys don't notice details, just snakes and turtles which lived in those old shacks.
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An older feller, who is now in his early 80's, I know was born in Alabama and every time he would see my double would start talking about the share cropping and farms they lived on and worked. His dad had enough and learned how to drive a truck and then taught him.
His Dad bought from the Sears & Roebucks catalog a Crescent double that he and his dad would share. All the farmers would get together for a drive on wild hogs to wipe them out and when his dad was on the road he would arm up and go.
"They always wanted me posted up because that old Crescent was a hog killer for sure." he would always say!!!!
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I like the add for ferrets. 12,000 rat killers. Just a name, town and state. Much simpler times when a letter sent across country would find the right person without gps and computers.
My grandfather was a rural mail carrier back in the 1920s and 1930s. He would get a letter with a cryptic address like; the old colored man living next to the spring in Costen Station. No name, no address just a vague description of who and where. From that he could figure it out and deliver it to the man. Then he recounted how the man could not read and he'd stop and read the letter to the fellow.
Illiterate former slaves were common in those days most in their 70's or 80's. We had a small area of shacks about a dozen families lived out their days after they were set free on a farm we bought when I was a very little boy Those little shacks were long abandoned. Most were single room shacks about ten by ten with a small wood stove, pump outside and privey out back or single pump for them all. It's been almost 60 years and little boys don't notice details, just snakes and turtles which lived in those old shacks. I remember those days so well. There were at least 12-14 tenant houses on our place like that, filled with happy families who meant so much to me and my family. They were built of heart pine, by a man who is the grandfather of a lady I go to church with. The first time I ran away from home I went to one of those houses and "holed up" with Lou, a sweet lady who could cook like nobody's business and scrubbed those heart pine floors with lye 'til they were almost white. I have torn down all of those tenant houses on the farm but one ........... the one Lou lived in. I salvaged that heart pine, pulled the nails, re-planed it and built my dining room using it. The old longleaf "lives on" here in the house my Grandaddy bought in 1919, and that was built in 1875. I may tear down Lou's house this winter. But, if I do, I will save every heart pine board that is worth saving and use them someday in the future to build something that will "live on". Merry CHRISTmas to all. SRH
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"Another thing which made Gilbert a sure winner he carried tied to a string in his left-hand pocket the left hind foot of a jack rabbit, which he shot on a dark night in a graveyard at Spirit Lake.”
Reminiscent of what my Grandaddy always told me, that the best good luck charm in the world was ........................... "the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit". Good stuff, Drew.
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"the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit". Good stuff, Drew.
SRH I'm pretty sure they'd put me under the jail if I tried jack-lighting a bunny at midnight in Sunset Hill now-a-days!...Geo
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Not that I wouldn't know how mind you...Geo
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