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Saw this video on another site and thought some would enjoy it. Don't think it has been posted here, if it has, maybe not recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6EJkvSJxbQGil
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Great story. It's nice to know the shotgun was used quite a bit and wasn't a safe queen.
Ken
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I visited Ike's farm in the late 1970s and the slot for that Model 21 in the gun rack had a card that said it was "removed for study." In those days the NRA was at 1600 Rhode Island Ave. N.W. in the District and the museum wasn't much.
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Thank you for pointing this story out to us.
Absolutely wonderful!
Last edited by Jtplumb; 12/26/20 11:54 AM.
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Long live America
Thank you
Mike
USAF RET 1971-95 ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](http://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/57865_80x60.jpg)
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President Eisenhower shooting clay targets launched from a Naval escort vessel while cruising the Potomac aboard 'Barbara Anne' with Capt. E.P. Aurand, Sept. 1960  On a quail hunt at the plantation of his first Secretary of Treasury George Humphreys in 1961. Photo appeared in Life Magazine. Low resolution image but the gun looks to be a small bore sidelock? 
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O/U of some sort. I would guess Ike knew better than to show up at a quail plantation with a 12 gauge.
Best,
Ted
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Ike was our greatest POTUS of the 20th Century. And the second best WW2 field General, Patton was Number one- and then lesser Generals: Clark, Bradley, and the British FM- Monty- just IMO of course- Patton's favorite bird gun was his Parker CHE 20 bore- not sure if that was the shotgun he had with him on that fateful Dec. day he was to go pheasant hunting with General Gay-- damn shame his untimely ending- always wondered how Patton would have handled the Korean conflict, had he been elected POTUS in 1948- RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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... And the second best WW2 field General... - RWTF When and where was Eisenhower ever a 'field General' ?
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Foxy, Patton's 20 gauge Parker is a DHE. It visited with me for personal attention last week. The safety was stuck in the safe position because it hadn't been fired since a couple of your hated PGCA members test fired it during the photo shoot for The Parker Story. It is now again in firing condition.
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