The Legend of Bo Whoop

I used to subscribe to Double Gun Journal back when this gun, and the Czar's Parker were auctioned. They both created a huge shockwave in the world of fine shotguns (admittedly, my favorite type of firearm). These Becker-bored HE-grade Super Foxes were supposed to be "magic." The article in the link is wrong about the patterns. The gun shot 90% patterns at 40 YARDS, not feet as stated in the article. That's 90% of the shot within a 30 in. circle, and this was with the old chilled lead shot, not the fancy, super-hard, super-round, super-polished stuff we have today. You could sure reach out and touch them with a gun like that, but you'd better be a decent shot. There is a Bo Whoop II, which Nash's friends had built for him to console him for the loss of the original. I believe it was identical as I remember, but it never found the same special place in his heart that the original did.

Thanks for posting. It's been a while since I thought about all that history.
 
Our family (Mom's) Fox double was stolen from the back seat of Mom's Black (what else?) 1949 Cadillac 60 Special sometime in the late 1950's.

It was the first firearm I ever fired. The Brothers had tossed a clay bird nearly straight up, and this 8 y/o swung it up and somehow managed to discharge both barrels just about simultaneously. I ended up on my butt, but the brothers swore I had powdered the clay bird. If memory serves and I was actually 8 at the time, this would have happened during the warmer months of 1954.

A genuine loss.

Greg