BoWhoop

[Researcher]

Here are some pictures from several of Nash's books that show Nash, possibly with BoWhoop, and a couple that show guns identified as BoWhoop --

This photo appears to my eye to show a gun with the long forearm common to Ansley H. Fox 2nd generation high grade guns.



The more I look at the picture below I think the gun may well be BoWhoop after being restocked with the forearm currently on 31088 and the broken stock that accompanies it.





From the origina Derrydale edition of Ole Miss --



Here are pictures of the card for the serial number believed by many to be BoWhoop --

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I never knew he had two Supers at one time or is the bottom gun in the picture from "Ole Miss" the Big 20?

Mike

[Researcher]

My best guess is the bottom gun is 33050, his of the pair (33050 and 33051) he and "Marse Henry" got November 6, 1929, for shooting at the Bartholomew's estate on the Potomac. Those guns were covered by Tom Kidd in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Seven, Issue 2. Since Nash's days of using it, 33050 was restocked with a pistol grip and had a safety added to the original no-safety gun. The original card for 33050 says straight grip, 14 1/4 inch LOP, 1 5/8 inch DAC, 2 inch DAH, 1/4 inch cast off, grip small and half oval, straight pitch with no buttplate or pad, natural wood and checkered. Last I knew, Don Kaas has a gun with the original straight grip trigger guard for 33050.

The bottom gun could also be this one but it doesn't appear to have the 2 inch longer barrels. Because of no cast, I've always thought this was a gun Nash ordered for someone else.