Larry, I knew that , Gunut knew that, and you knew that, but did Galen Winter know that? The question was whether the major's shotgun was a Syracuse Lefever or an Ithaca...Geo
Well, therein lies a dilemma. If it dates from 1925, it could not be a Syracuse Lefever, nor could it be an A Grade. I'd think, somewhere along the line, someone would have picked up on that and would have written a letter to Shooting Sportsman, which would have reached Galen Winter. But it might have been too late at that point for him to correct the mistake.
On the other hand . . . the late Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote a letter to Ian Fleming, pointing out various errors in James Bond's armament--including the fact that the .25 Beretta was a poor choice. At which point Fleming not only changed Bond's gun to a Walther PPK, but wrote "Major Boothroyd" into the book as the official armourer of the 00 Section.
