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Gold Medal Concours d’Elegance of Fine Guns
At Rock Springs Ranch& Lodge, January 21, 2001
Heartfelt thanks go to Rock Springs Ranch & Lodge for an enormous effort and commitment of resources. Without the help and support of ranch managers Ken and Nola Range and their excellent staff, and of proprietors Carol and Lyman Casey, the Gold Medal Concours would not have enjoyed such a strong start.
Thanks also for their support and participation go to Shooting Sportsman Magazine, Grouse Point Almanac , J. Rigby & Co. and the Vintagers.
The Gold Medal Concours also would like to thank the judges for their hours of deliberation and discussion, and their discerning selections. They were:
Don Allen — Founder and president of Dakota Arms; lifelong shooter and hunter, designer & builder of fine magazine and break-action rifles and shotguns.
David Baker — One of England’s most authoritative writers on the subject of his country’s firearms; widely published in the UK and the US.
Stephen Helsley — NRA, ret.; former law-enforcement officer, tactical shooter, shooting writer and collector of British single-shot rifles.
Roger Lake — Fine-gun specialist at Butterfields, the San Francisco-based auction house; gun writer and widely traveled shooter and hunter.
Michael McIntosh — America’s foremost book author and magazine columnist on the subject of fine shotguns and shooting and hunting with them.
Geoffrey Miller — Managing Director of John Rigby & Company; founder of Rogue River Rifles.
Ray Poudrier — Co-founder of the Order of Edwardian Gunners (the Vintagers) and producer of The Vintage Cup and World Side by Side Championships & Exhibition.
Rick Pratt — Writer and authority on, and researcher, shooter and connoisseur of, fine guns.
Douglas Tate — Expatriate British fine-gun researcher, writer and dealer, and widely traveled bird shooter.
| Awards — Shotguns Classic American Sidelock SxS 12-Bore Gold Medal L.C. Smith upgrade #99321 – Bob Wilson Classic American Boxlock 12-Bore Silver Parker A-1 Special #198229 – Paul Dorsa Bronze Parker AAH #128532 – Paul Dorsa Classic American Boxlock Smallbore Silver Ithaca 7E # – Ron Gabriel Bronze Ithaca NID .410 upgrade #446759 – David Slade Vintage American Hammer 12-Bore Classic British Sidelock SxS 12-Bore Silver Lang keylock two-barrel set #15667 – Paul Dorsa Bronze Boss #5554; Grifnée engraved – J.C. Wyatt Classic British Sidelock SxS 12-Bore Set Classic British Boxlock SxS 12-Bore Silver Wm. Cashmore ‘Nitro’ Gun #9575 – Richard Edlund Classic British Boxlock SxS Smallbore Vintage British Sidelock SxS 12-Bore Classic British Triggerplate SxS Smallbore Vintage British Triggerplate SxS Smallbore Classic British Sidelock O/U 12-Bore Vintage British Hammer 12-Bore Silver Wm. Powell #6454 – Bob Christensen Bronze Army & Navy #8282 – Bill Scott Vintage British Hammer Smallbore Silver W.W. Greener .410 # – Ron Gabriel Bronze Stephen Grant .410 conversion w/offset stock # – Ron Gabriel Vintage British Big-Bore Hammer Gun Silver Rigby 8-bore #15876 – Craig Vallely Bronze J. & W. Tolley 8-bore #5650 – John Shanafelt Vintage British Muzzle-Loading Big-bore Shotgun Vintage British Pinfire Classic European Sidelock SxS 12-Bore Silver LeBeau Courally #36944 – Robert Galvan Bronze Gillet #7214 – Robert Galvan Vintage European Sidelock SxS 12-Bore Classic European Boxlock SxS 12-Bore Silver Charles Daly Diamond-grade by Linder #1384 – Craig Vallely Classic European Sidelock O/U Smallbore New European Boxlock 12-Bore Vintage European Hammer Silver Ansorg 16-Bore (no serial number) – Ben Nywsander Vintage European Muzzle-Loading European Non-Traditional Action Silver Darne Modèle C 16-bore #15621 – Don Butts Bronze Manufrance Idéal 12-bore #90074 – Don Butts Awards — Rifles Vintage British Sidelock SxS Stopping Rifle Silver Alfred Lancaster .500 BPE #4339 – Kim Pisor Classic British Boxlock SxS Stalking Rifle Classic British Sidelock SxS Stalking Rifle Silver John Rigby & Son .400/.350 NE rifle #17173 – Richard Edlund Bronze Holland & Holland 9.3x74R (w/extra .410 barrels) #17401 – Terry Wallace Vintage Single-Barrel Ball & Shot Vintage British SxS Ball & Shot Vintage British Muzzle-Loading Big-bore Rifle Vintage European Sidelock SxS Stalking Rifle Special Awards People’s Choice (Boothroyd Award) Heritage Awards Silver L.C. Smith Grade 2 12-Gauge #16127 – Scott Hutchinson Bronze Parker Trojan 20-Gauge #237947 – Joe Furia Custom Gun J. Rigby Co. Award for the best Rigby gun or rifle The Vintager Award for “the vintage side-by-side gun that best exemplifies the standards and traditions of The Order of Edwardian Gunners.” The Shooting Sportsman Award for “a contemporary custom-fitted game gun less than $15,000 in value The Grouse Point Almanac Award for “the ideal light-gauge upland gun” Ladies Award Special Mentions |
| pair of 12-bore guns #23867-8 .577 NE rifle #19284 .375 NE rifle #19309 .360 NE rifle #19354 .303 British rifle #19375 |
| Wm. Cashmore trap set #20115 – Robert Galvan
Double-barrelled Daisy BB gun – Kim Pisor British single-shot rifle display – Stephen Helsley Lancaster pinfire conversion #3766 – John Svennson Charles Daly (Linder) lever-cocking 10-bore gun #1816 – John Shanafelt |