"Skeet" McD
Practically Family
- Messages
- 755
- Location
- Essex Co., Mass'tts
Hello, lads....
As the moniker suggests, I'm interested in the shotgunning sports and do most of my shooting "in period." I just scored this nice tieclip showing what appears to be a model 1912 pumpgun mounted with a Cutts compensator:
http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF1693
I have another tietack I wear a good deal...it was given me by a good friend when I shot my first straight....and had been given to HIM by an old shooter when he shot HIS first straight...:
http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF1694
This is made from the brass of a Winchester 20g shell; "25" has been stamped into the area where the primer would be. Whether these were Winchester publicity items, or were made privately, I have no idea.
Here's a very cheap, but to me very charming, set of brass cufflinks showing a sport shooting over his dog:
http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF1699
Finally, a silver watch fob with a gunning scene...
http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF1696&bgcolor=black
I wish I could publish the OTHER fob I purchased with this one: also silver; round; and showing a plus-foured gent gunning over his setter. THAT was the one I kept in the breast pocket of my Filson gamevest....until, pushing through some of our thick New-England coverts....it got left behind, along with the bow of the watch it was attached to. I went back with a metal detector that day, and I've kept an eye peeled for the last 3 seasons. Gone, but not forgotten!
I'm wondering what other bits of sporting jewelry might be out there?
As the moniker suggests, I'm interested in the shotgunning sports and do most of my shooting "in period." I just scored this nice tieclip showing what appears to be a model 1912 pumpgun mounted with a Cutts compensator:
http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF1693
I have another tietack I wear a good deal...it was given me by a good friend when I shot my first straight....and had been given to HIM by an old shooter when he shot HIS first straight...:
http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF1694
This is made from the brass of a Winchester 20g shell; "25" has been stamped into the area where the primer would be. Whether these were Winchester publicity items, or were made privately, I have no idea.
Here's a very cheap, but to me very charming, set of brass cufflinks showing a sport shooting over his dog:
http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF1699
Finally, a silver watch fob with a gunning scene...
http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF1696&bgcolor=black
I wish I could publish the OTHER fob I purchased with this one: also silver; round; and showing a plus-foured gent gunning over his setter. THAT was the one I kept in the breast pocket of my Filson gamevest....until, pushing through some of our thick New-England coverts....it got left behind, along with the bow of the watch it was attached to. I went back with a metal detector that day, and I've kept an eye peeled for the last 3 seasons. Gone, but not forgotten!
I'm wondering what other bits of sporting jewelry might be out there?