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Interesting; I've only seen 220s with that scene. Another "never say never".... I assume that the combination rifle/shotguns also had these scenes in that period. Anybody know?
BTW isn't the game scene actually acid etched, not die rolled in? Or am I wrong about that, too? Savage/Stevens used both kinds of decorations on various guns, but this looks etched to me.
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I have some boxed sets of combination guns but none stamped.
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Definitely not used for aerial gunnery instruction. Initiation into that was done on skeet fields, where the doubles on stations 1,2,6,and 7 are impossible with a crumby single shot, and darned difficult with a pump. All photos and references I've seen over the years of GI's undergoing skeet/aerial gunnery training has been with autos, doubles, and occasionally pumps. We actually missed the best bet for finding out from my 92 year old uncle who passed away a month ago. He taught aerial gunnery somewhere in Texas from 1942-1944, before finally getting re-assigned to a B-29 squadron in the Pacific.
Best bet is it was a line throwing gun or a recreational loaner from out of a PX somewhere. And don't forget the existence of counterfeiting stamps.
All this debating over this gun is moot, unless someone here actually gets/got it. Without a hands on inspection we'll never know the key details that would give a clue as to it's provenance.
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Fug,
Which bird scenes do your 219's have? The "pheasant" (at least I think it's a pheasant) or the duck scene? Is it on the sides or on the bottom of the receiver? I've seen Utica 220's both ways.
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i got a "monitor" single shot shotgun with the flaming bomb stamp, i got the gun in the 1980's before the fake stamps came out. apparently a guard gun, now in bad condition. Jericho: i got a m10 smith marked RHKP followed by a rack numnber on the backstrap and a colt police positive marked the same. never saw a M19 w" marked hong kong yet, could be a private security outfit like hang seng bank or other outfit.
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