I'll look through some stuff, there has been a couple Owen shotguns change hands in the last year.
Bob Owen did go to Germany and visit his friend August Heym several times. I've heard a lot of stories about Owen just like I hear them about many of the other well known makers. I think the better known you are the more of these seem to circulate. Trying to separating fact from fiction can be hard at times.
Owen going to Germany I got from his son, who, despite his first impression of me, has been very helpful. To explain that when I first found Bob Owen Jr. I was asking him some questions on the phone and asked if his sister might know the answer and when he said no I ask if his other sister might know, he then told me he only had one sister. My mouth was working but not my brain and I said "no you have two sisters" and it was out before I could think this through. What happen was one of his sisters died before he was born and the family did not share that with him, so here is some nut on the phone telling this man he has a dead sister. I try to be a bit more reserved these days when doing interviews.
