Our own Silvers with a win!!

[Mike of the Mountain]

Congrats to "Silvers", one of our founding AHFGCA members, for his HOA in the Classic Pump Gun event using his Winchester model 12. Well struck you shell shucker!!!

[Jeff S]

Congratulations on the shooting, and the rather distinguished looking picture.

[Researcher]

Great job with "the most perfect repeater"!!

[jolly bill]

Well done Frank.

[DarylC]

Nice job Frank. A vintage classic gun in it's own right and it goes very well with the dapper fedora which looks very stylish on you.

[Silvers]

Thanks gents. That fedora was my paternal grandfather's and I have a treasured picture of him wearing it and holding me when I was about 6 months old. He passed just a few years after that. That Winchester M-12 is one I shot at Trap many many years ago and it went on idle when I got into sporting clays and with a whole range of gas guns and stack barrels. Now they're all gone. Two gents came up to me while at the Northern S x S last weekend and wanted to buy the Winchester. No way. I never had that happen with a B, K or P gun.

frank

[Stan Hillis]

Great pic, Frank, and CONGRATULATIONS! I share your enthusiasm for competing with these old guns, as you know.

All my best, SRH