Well Bill, I don't want "how you guys got into a many page conflict" to be a puzzle. If you'd merely said there was no catalog offering instead of saying there was no Skeet Grade, there would have been no reason to reconcile what you were saying vs. what Schwing wrote and you said was wrong. Schwing said nothing about Skeet Grade appearing in catalogs, and no one here claimed it did either.

Seems to me you were a bit of a party to the conflict part when others were asking questions to clarify and understand.

While acknowledging and accepting that the later catalogs still said "Skeet Gun", I thought it unlikely Schwing was entirely mistaken in making so much a point of distinguishing between what "Skeet" meant before and after 1936. I thought and still do that the marketing guys would have thought it too confusing to explain the change in promotional material designed to sell.

Jay