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Jimmy Carter was/is a quail hunter. I recall being told he used a 20ga LCS, but can't find any reference to it now.

I wondered if Ike had something made in England, during the war. I remember reading that Gen. Bradley and Spaatz both did. Patton did too, uniforms.

Just something I read awhile ago. It was my understanding that Brezhnev, enjoyed fine arms.

Bush Jr. received a Beretta SO-10 from Beretta USA at an SCI convention.


Its has a quail hunting theme along with engraving of his dogs and the presidential seal.


He also likes to dove hunt... looks like a Browning Citori or maybe a Winchester 101.


And he quail hunts too.... another over/under.


Bush Sr. quail hunting... can't tell what he's using but his buddy's using a Midas-grade Superposed.


And of course Cheney made his 28ga Perazzi famous with his screw up.


And Eisenhower loved to quail hunt. He often visited many plantations near Thomasville and Albany Georgia for hunts on friends' properties.

Taking a break and drinking a coke.




With a SXS of some kind.


Now with an O/U.... hard to say but its looks like a sidelock (or a sideplated boxlock).

Bush Sr. had a Model 21 commissioned. Doesn't look like it was intended for much field use but it could be the gun he is holding in the picture Adam posted.

Model 21 16 ga.

Bush Sr. at KTP courtesy of cc/dt

This is slightly off topic, but W. Alton Jones, who was the CEO of Cities Service Oil and a big hunting pal of Eisenhower, had an awesome gun collection, including a great pair of pre-war sidelock SxS Merkels. Jones gave the skeet field that is on Eisenhower's farm in Gettysburg, PA (a plaque there so states). He also had a duck hunting place in Rhode Island, often visited by Eisenhower, that is now a University of Rhode Island campus. You pass by it in Interstate 95 just south of Providence. Jones died in a plane crash on his way to go hunting with Ike.

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.

Looks like Ike is shooting his Winchester 21......as an aside, (and slightly off topic) Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, was partial to Remington 11-48's in 28ga. Supposedly he had 3 or 4 always in his truck. He could have afforded any gun in the world.

The 11-48 Remington in 28-bore is a slick and neat little gun!