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Nov 2015 issue of The American Rifleman- Rick Hacker's semi-informative rehashing of many other fine write-ups on the beloved Elsies-has a few Fubars-page 83 top left graphs- following the ejectors introduced in 1895 on the A-3 ejector grade Smith, he writes that in 1904 the non-selective one trigger was introduced- not right there, Rickie--it was a selective single trigger- If I have my Houchins down pat- the 1930's with the skeet guns was the first series of non-selective single triggers, firing the right barrel first, then the left, at the command of the shooter- He also failed to mention the revised ejectors with the Lewis Patent, of May 1905, a designed unchanged for the next 45 odd years in production. And under the aegis of Gifford Simmons, the raised ventilated rib came into being about the same time the LONGRANGE model was introduced. All great developments for the best sidelock side-by-side shotgun ever built in America--

I read this with some disbelief as well. Why in this day and age these "gun writers" with the resources available don't check their facts before publication is a mystery to me.
Jim

Well...why should gun writers be any different than writers in general? Just go to any news website - CNN, MSN, Yahoo, etc. and you'll see quickly that all the old standards of journalism, grammar, and sentence structure have gone down the tube.

Did he happen to mention what year they patented the cracks in the stock behind the lockplates?
I see so many of them that way, I figure it was a trade secret of some sort...


Best,
Ted

yes ted that was 1901 didn't want anyone else to be able to advertise full time stock repair dept.

The Difference:
The "general public" is for all practical purposes dumber then a box of rocks and wouldn't have any idea when a writer or a reporter was in error in the general news media. Just Watch Watters World on O'Reilly some time and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
Most gun enthusiasts are fairly knowledgeable about the subject and readily pick up the type of errors being discussed in this thread.
Jim

Some years back I was reading an article by a well known gun Writer on the virtues of the 28 gauge. He was promoting its magical powers on the fact it shot a Square Load. He defined te Sq load as being the same weight of shot as the round ball for the gauge. He then rightly stated that you could obtain this by dividing 16 by the gauge number. In the case of the 28 this gives .57. Therefore he said the 3/4oz load in the 28 was a perfect Sq Load. Now even this ol dumb TN Hillbilly knows .57 & .75 Ain't the same, Ain't even close.

Did you see the 410 Parker with vent rib pictured in the Smith article? Bobby

Yes I did- didn't realize it was a "midget gauge shotty-gun" but the boxlock and carriage bolt himgr pin were a dead give-away that it weren't no Elsie--

AR just isn't a shotgun magazine. Also, their writers aren't shotgun people. The last shotgun guy on staff was my shooting buddy Bob Hunnicutt. His title was Senior Technical Editor. He shot A Class International Skeet with an ancient Krieghoff Model 32 and knew something about a shotgun.