After Hunter Arms introducd the Double Barrel Trap gun in 1920, the 'Trap Package' included a beavertail Schnabel forend with the reinforced barrel lug, Automatic Ejectors, Hunter One-Trigger, standard recoil pad, and two ivory sights and could be ordered on any grade gun. The ventilated rib on the double barrel gun was introduced in 1925, and promoted for trap shooting.



More infro here http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/17127707

And for the guns used by the c. 1900 Top Guns see http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfg2hmx7_311kp75d7hd
Unfortunately, Sporting Life stopped reporting the guns used at tournaments and the GAH about 1898. Most of the information I found thereafter was in advertisments by powder, shell, and gun makers.



Crosby was shooting a Smith by 1900 but left Hunter Arms for a Parker in 1906, Fred Gilbert did the same in 1902.

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