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Point taken Mr. Mac. I only know of James Julia from the big ads he places in Gun Digest (aka- Gun List) and that old Cabela's pal Wes Dillon works for him. There are two enterprises that will always prosper, even during the "Madoff Months of Malaise" ahead- for those who believed in the NYSE anyway: Undertakers and Auctioneers. I just surmised Mr. Julia was a dealer because I read in Field & Stream, under Mr. Fijestads column, about the rumored Czar Nicholas Parker that Mr. Puglisi bought from Mr. Julia's auction house. I shall go back and delete Mr. Julia's name from the previous post- post haste!! RWTF
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Lowell,
The reason I don't put you on my blocked list is that what you say makes me chuckle.
I'd love to see you with your "light game gun" on a pass shoot for geese on a day it's blowing a gale.
I'll pack the 10 gauge and those big heavy cartridges no problem on a day like that. You can bring your little popgun and powderpuff shells to go along with it. We'll see who's got a couple at the end of the flight.
Destry
Out there at the crossroads molding the devil's bullets. - Tom Waits
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Put me also on the "chuckle list" Destry. Different strokes for different folks, but you make a very valid point- especially to an old waterfowler like moi- a nice light Evans or J. Wilkes 12 bore for the short Limey shells over at Walpole in late Nov. with a big wind zipping across Lake St. Clair and the Canadas hammering their wings against that gale-that's like a cement contractor showing up for a foundation pouring with an eggbeater to mix the cement, gravel and water.
But to be fair to Lowell, and I take him like I do Letterman- great entertainment but not necessarily "Good to ride the long and hard trail with", and he does add plenty of seasoning to the stew we have on this site- lotsa sparks, some spirited disagreement, all in good fun. He might also be perplexed with a 9 and 1/2 lb. Parker GH 10 bore or a 12 HE Fox in the dove blind or grouse woods.
I think that for the same reason(s) Parker, Ithaca, Fox and Smith may have given out special "highly decorated models" - ie: The Sousa Ithaca SBT-to promote their regular line, they may have also liked the great advertising when Joe Columbaire won the big money in the pigeon rings with his: Parker, Smith, Purdey-etc. The barrel steels and chokes, ejectors, triggers, all the basics were as on the regular hunting guns they produced, just the extras-and my favorite guns, the pre-WW11 Winchesters=- they didn't come up with Trap Grade, Tournament Grade and then Pigeon Grade for nothing- Winchester started its dominance of the pumpgun area of the market as live bird shooting was in its peak, and the ATA had yet to establish its grounds at Vandalia, OH-- RWTF
Last edited by Run With The Fox; 03/03/09 09:36 AM.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Lowell I think Ma'Parker is sweet on you...  chuckle chuckle
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WTF do I care MarketHunter...block me!
Besides, I'd like to see you, or your big gun go over hill'n dale.
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Over hill and rolling down the dale I bet.... chuckle chuckle 
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Some of these threads are really going to be a pleasure to read without you Lowell. Adios....
DLH
Out there at the crossroads molding the devil's bullets. - Tom Waits
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Mal, unless I'm missing something, I don't see where RWTF made reference to Jim Julia... not that I'm defending RWTF, I just read back from the first page and saw nothing. Maybe I'm losing my vision too...
Okay, now I see that RWTF deleted the reference.
Rocketman and HOS... point taken and noted. Yours make sense to me, thanks.
Dean
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See what ya done Lowell now we got to look at pictures of Ma'Parker.
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Lowell Sir, I was under the impression that Holland, Boss, Purdey
and any other good makers produced their "pidgeon guns" for exactly that, live competetive pidgeon shooting, now illegal in the UK but very popular still in Spain, Mexico and other places I believe. Now this competion uses heavy loads so the guns are heavier, here in Huelva the normal load is 36 grams HV of no.6 through an O/U choked full and full. (I know you chaps in the states probably don't think that is a heavy load but it is in Europe and you wouldn't want to fire that stuff through a normal 6 1/2 lb English game gun, The pidgeon guns I have seen from the big makers are usually 7 1/4 - 8 lbs, best, Mike
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