Some history identification, please.
This photo taken Jan. 5, 1938 at Westmoreland Hills, MD, shows a Mrs. Albert F. Walker having been declared the 1937 national skeet shooting champion by the National Skeet Shooting Association.
My questions are:
is that a Browning A5 she's holding? is that a Cutts Compensator at the end of the barrel? is there hope for me and my Winchester model 59? [}:)]
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The front end of the forearm does not look like a BROWNING A5 I do believe it has a CUTTS. A Winchester model 59 is one of the fastest
swinging guns ever. But just remember it is an older GUN parts hard to find0 -
better picture
http://www.shorpy.com/node/7433?size=_original0 -
I think its an old Remington Sportsman. If you zoom the picture you can see the duck engraved on the receiver.
Yes , Cutts compensator.I once had a Remington Sportsman with the cutts compensator on it, I won a fair amount of money shooting skeet with it. If you shot it in the general direction of a clay pigeon, they would shatter.0 -
Heres a Remington Sportsman.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=3209884780 -
Thanks for the replies!
This photo was taken about 8 years into the Depression. I know it was an extremely hard time for many people, but it wasn't all doom & gloom as this photo shows.0 -
Ya, the Remington Sportsman (3-shot) and later Model 11 (5-shot) were John Browning designed autoloaders that have the straight-backed receivers that look a LOT like the Auto-5. This gun looks like the 3-shot version with a Cutts on the barrel.
Many moons ago my Dad gave me his old Sportsman 58 that had a Cutts on it (Looks nothing like the M-11). That old girl was a tank to lug about in the dove fields!0 -
Looks like the "spreader" choke on that one. I have a set for my Model 11. 0 -
She's got a powder burn in her skirt. I don't think those are her origional teeth.
That's a cool picture!0
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