In his 1910 book Askins stated something along the idea that the hammerless sidelock was an evolutionary step from the hammer gun but that the boxlock was the real answer. It does seem that the good Captains tastes ran to boxlocks with Parker Bros., Ansley H. Fox, and Ithaca guns being prominant in his writings. However, he did seem to go verticle with the introduction of the Browning Superposed.

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