Yes- but it was his choice of one of 2 PURDEY guns, edmundo. A Purdy is a fine paintbrush, but NOT a shotgun. Charles Cadwallader Norris, a life long bachelor, like Corey Ford, who shot birds with a 12 gauge M21, by the way- He was a professor of gynecology at Penn State, gre up in "Old Main Line" wealth-also an avid fly-fisher who loved Salmon fishing in the NE rivers--I owned, at one time, a Hardy Cascapedia Fly Reel and a Gillum 9&1/2" 3 pc.salmon rod supposedly owned and used by him. RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..