Pops old hunting photos

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My father just turned 87 and we were going through some old hunting camp photos from Wells NY, I believe it’s in Hamilton County. Circa 1958. He still has his red and black woolrich coat and pants!

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@wolc123 is your father?!

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[left field]

Great pics.

[Pygmy]

32 minutes ago, ANTLERS said:

Do you know the make of the shotgun  ?  Looks like an American made boxlock...Could be one of several different manufacturers.. I'd guess an Ithaca, but could be a Parker, AH Fox, Baker  or several others...Defintiely not an LC Smith  or a Syracuse Lefever, because they are sidelocks...

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2 hours ago, Pygmy said:

Do you know the make of the shotgun  ?  Looks like an American made boxlock...Could be one of several different manufacturers.. I'd guess an Ithaca, but could be a Parker, AH Fox, Baker  or several others...Defintiely not an LC Smith  or a Syracuse Lefever, because they are sidelocks...

Webley Scott 20 gauge 

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2 hours ago, The Jerkman said:

@wolc123 is your father?!

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Yes sir, late 1950’s.

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1 minute ago, ANTLERS said:

Webley Scott 20 gauge 

A quality English gun....VERY cool...Any idea where your Dad came by it ??

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1 minute ago, Pygmy said:

A quality English gun....VERY cool...Any idea where your Dad came by it ??

Bought it in the mid 1950’s at Abercrombie & Fitch in NYC. Still in his gun cabinet. 

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7 minutes ago, ANTLERS said:

Bought it in the mid 1950’s at Abercrombie & Fitch in NYC. 

That makes it so much cooler. If he (and you) are up for the telling, it would be fascinating to hear the story of how he purchased it.

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6 minutes ago, ANTLERS said:

Bought it in the mid 1950’s at Abercrombie & Fitch in NYC. Still in his gun cabinet. 

I might have guessed..Either A&C  or perhaps Herter's..I'll bet he didn't pay more than $50, for a quality double that was built to last forever..

In 1963, I sold a steer for $123  and used some of the money to buy my first repeating shotgun, a Rem 11-48  16 gauge that I paid $85 for...The gun shops here in WNY had a LOT of quality double barrels ( Ithaca, Parker, LC Smith  ..AH fox, etc) for sale dirt cheap because  shotguns with slugs were required for deer at that time and many doubles do not group well with slugs..Many high quality double barrels were bought for $50 or less...Nobody wanted a double barrel, except a few smart individuals who bought them dirt cheap and then later made big $$$$ on them...

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30 minutes ago, left field said:

That makes it so much cooler. If he (and you) are up for the telling, it would be fascinating to hear the story of how he purchased it.

Basically he says that A&F had a whole floor (4th floor) of just firearms. He paid $250 which was like 2 weeks pay back then. 

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Now if you walked in A&F with a picture of a gun on your shirt half the staff would go for counseling lol


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18 minutes ago, ANTLERS said:

Basically he says that A&F had a whole floor (4th floor) of just firearms. He paid $250 which was like 2 weeks pay back then. 

Damn GOOD pay, also...I started at Corning Glass Works in 1974 as a weekly salaried lab technician for $130 a week......

[helmut in the bush]

I have an old Abercrombie and Fitch catalog, I'll dig it out see what it has in it, have an old LL Bean too. Cool pictures, I wish I had some old hunting pictures, when I was a kid we never took pics.

Edited September 10, 2020 by helmut in the bush

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Great pictures!