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They would have started building pumps and autoloaders shortly after they got here. If they wanted to eat, anyway.

Best,
Ted

Rose and scroll on a Purdey Model 12 would be da bomb.

This is why they stayed in England.

And why Americans think engraved machinery has class.

The only one here who mentioned anything about class, was you. That said, to a pre WWI share cropper, with a bunch of mouths to feed, it might be hard to imagine anything classier than a Remington model 10, or a Winchester model 12.
You can't eat engraving, after all.
Congrats on your very first post that has anything remotely to do with double guns (very remotely) douchebag. Why you bless us with such esteemed presence is one of life's more dubious mysteries.
I'm guessing the online vinyl love companion sites are down this week, eh?

Best,
Ted

As always, your limited sophistication matches your lack of language.

There is little I can say to such gutter mentality.

Except perhaps, you make my point.

You have a fine point-covered by your hat, typically.

Best,
Ted

Ted, my grandfather was a pre-WWI share cropper - in fact he bought his first piece of land from my father who sold it to him just before WWII so he could go to college.

Granddad would have loved a pump - all he could afford was an "Allen Hardware Co." single shot. My nephew now has the gun with clear instructions not to shoot it. It is so loose that unless you push the barrel up the firing pin won't hit the primer. And, yes, it is the first shotgun that I ever shot - complete with instruction to push the barrel up so that it would fire. If I had known then what I know now I would have been scared but, as they say, ignorance is bliss and an 8 year old will do anything with granddad.

Glad to have jarred the memory. Sorry you were exposed to the dull wit of "El Chancho" in the course of it.
My Dad used a .410 single shot as a kid, a gun he called "an Ivory" if I recall correctly. Since he was in his early teens at the beginning of WWII, his problem was ammunition, not a repeater, a problem he clearly understood.
His "go-to" gun, during the war, was a single shot .22 rifle, and he did the majority of his hunting with it, hitchhiking out to what is now Coon Rapids, and back to the Frog Town area of St. Paul.
My Dad was raised by foster parents, and the supplimental protein he provided with crappies and sunfish through the ice, and rabbit, squirrels, and the occasional pheasant was well thought of by his family, especially early in the war years.

Best,
Ted

Gunman,

Thanks for sharing the date with us, your colonial cousins - and thanks to England for being the best friend the U.S. has in the world.

Probably an "Ivory" Johnson, Ted. I have heard Iver Johnson referred to as such many times.

SRH