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Help required please .
I am currently researching the history of the 'Try Gun' any notes , information , or history will be appreciated .
Many say that William Palmer Jones invented the 'Try Gun' but I can find no evidence of that .
Any information or other names will be a help .
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Patent No.1157 of 1889 - W.P. Jones
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Last edited by Daryl Hallquist; 09/12/20 12:20 PM.
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Ithaca's A.P. Curtis patented a trap gun. Made 11 or 12 for Ithaca and took his design to LC Smith.
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Has anyone come across a hammer try gun?
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Walter, A.P.Curtis also made try guns for Parker Brothers. I own one. I have also seen a Lefever A.P.Curtis try gun. It is or was in North Carolina.
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A.P. Curtis Try Gun "Recreation", December 1914, "Your Shotgun Affinity" https://books.google.com/books?id=DYA7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA323&lpghttps://books.google.com/books?id=DYA7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA347&lpg A.P. Curtis invented the L.C. Smith 'Curtis fore end fastener' and worked for the HAC from 1899 - 1917; as plant superintendent during the last seven years of his employment. After WWI, he worked at Winchester, Ithaca, Iver Johnson, and Marlin. He returned to Fulton in 1940 and was the general manager of HAC until his death in 1941. He was also a prolific writer. Forty one of his articles were published from 1909 to 1940 and he authored "America's Double Hammerless Shotguns".  
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Westley Richards Try Gun https://www.theexplora.com/the-westley-richards-try-guns-for-shotgun-measurements/ Lancaster Try Gun c. 1890 https://books.google.com/books?id=O2GzwW9tKCoC&pg=PA15&vq "The author has invented an adjustable try-gun (patent), which is constructed with the stock perfectly rigid in the hand, being made to move in right lines (and not bodily, by the means of a knucklejoint in the hand of stock, which necessarily describes the section of a circle), therefore the author's does not give an excess of bend or cast-off, yet it can be adjusted for cast-off, bend, and length, also for set of toe or heel of stock, so as to be correctly adjusted to what is required for any individual sportsman, to enable him to make accurate practice when firing at either targets or game ; or the author's original adjustable gun (with specially constructed fittings) can be handled to demonstrate that the measurements taken by him are correct as to bend, length, and cast-off, thereby showing that the gun to be supplied will be suited to the purchaser." 
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William Evans Try Gun  
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