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For those here who have either done business with Steve in the past or just knew him from visiting with him at shows or perhaps by phone would come to realize he has been gone now for five years. After Steve’s passing, his stepson, August Morris, took over his business and has run it admirably. I spoke with him today for about thirty minutes. I learned he is launching a new website in about two weeks, hopefully, that will be much more user-friendly with more and better details to narrow a search. Just an fyi for The DGS members and lurkers.
JR

I bought a beautiful Vent Rib, Trap Grade Skeet from August.
Not a lot of wiggle room on price but a pleasure to deal with.

Good to hear that, John. August seems to be a fine young man with whom I have been very impressed, in person.

I look forward to the new website. Will it still be under the same name?

You know your 21's Bob. That is a nice one and tough to find in that sort of shape.

August is indeed what you say, Stan. And yes, it will still be SBFG.
JR

I agree, my experiences with him has been pleasant

I recently bought a 21 Winchester Skeet with 28 inch skeet barrels and a matching set of 28 inch m/f barrels.The gun was exactly as indicated by August. The gun shoots as I hoped and if I can keep the grandsons away it should take some quail this year. I would not hesitate to purchase another gun from August.

jlb

I bought this from Steve about 25 years ago at The National Gun Day show in Louisville. I had been looking for a Magnum Grade for some time and he had one on his table that day. I snatched it up for $3,000.00. I thought I would walk around and I got down to the end of that row of tables, turned the corner and started up the next row. Some guy stopped me and asked to see my gun. I showed it to him and he asked how much I was asking for it. Being a smart aleck, I said $4,000.00. The next thing I know he was pulling out 40 one hundred dollar bills and I was holding out my hand in shock. Then I got really mad because I had looked so long for that gun. I had no other choice except to go back over to Steve's table and see if I could find another gun I liked. He had a table full of 21s that day. I decided on a nice TRAP grade and I bought it for $3,200.00. It was the second of nine- 21s I have bought over the years. So, I was out in the field hunting pheasants with it in no time and I had no luck that day. I didn't want to go home without shooting it, so I found a paper cup in the weeds and took a shot at it. It liked to tear my shoulder off and I realized it had doubled on me. So, I took it home and put it in the gun safe where it stayed until two years ago. I did send for the paperwork from Cody and found out that it had come into the world the same day I did. Cody told me when it was shipped, which was the day I was born. It was shipped to Von Lengerke and Antoine in Chicago. I was told- The same store where Capone and all the gangsters got their machine guns. Two years ago, I took a fantastic trip up to beautiful Connecticut and took the gun to Mitch Schultz whose shop was at the Sturm Ruger Building. He disassembled the gun and sent it to Pauline Muerrle to engrave. After she was done he blued the gun and assembled it back together and fixed the doubling problem with perfection. While I made the two trips up to Connecticut I managed to drive over to New Haven and walk around the outside of the Winchester Building which is now being turned into living apartments. I did walk around the crumbling building and pick up several bricks as souvenirs. I figure I could give them to my friends. So, that's my story about seeing Steve Barnett. I used to see him every year. They don't come up to the Gun Show in Louisville anymore, I guess. Steve was a fine addition to that show. Oscar Gaddy, Dave Riffle, Tony Galazan and many others used to show up. But not too much anymore from what I have seen.

Steve has done more for the Hawaiian shirt business than anyone I can imagine.

I also bought a 20 ga W 21, after many years of looking for one with close enough dimensions. August was a pleasure to do business with and even shipped the gun in a W case, one designed for a W 23 but still he didn't charge me extra for it. I was pleasantly surprised to find the gold initials of that famous singer, the Chairman of the board FAS on the trigger guard.