Remington's Wilber Cox, Exhibition Shooter

Last month I was able to procure a Bullet Art for my collection, believed to be shot by Wilber Cox who was a Remington Exhibition shooter back in the mid 1900's.

Did any of you fellows ever see him in action, or have any stories to tell ?

I'm a little too young to have seen him, but enjoy hearing stories about these old Reps.

As you can see, The one I have is not the exact one shown in the picture with Wilber but very close

 

History Seeker, I don't know anything about this shooter, but I remember that I watched a Remington shooter named Ken Beagle do an exhibition at the Moulton Gun Club about 1948 or thereabouts and he shot a Indian head and it was in the old club house, but before the club moved to its present location the picture disappeared. I have often wondered where this art work disappeared to and if it still exists? It like so much of our shooting history has been lost forever. I have often wondered about this exhibition shooter as I have never really heard anything about him and as being a very young kid I don't remember much about the event other than looking at the Indian picture on the sheet of tin in the old club house. Maybe H B has some information on this subject that he could share with us?

Dave Berlet

 

Hi Dave !

Yep, HB is the fellow who found a lot of information for me on Wilber Cox.

He had info on Ken Beagle, and for some reason I remember reading about another Remington shooter and another named Peret.
I will look up and see where I read about Ken shooting one of those indians and it was hanging in a club house as yours did.

Here is a Peret Indian.

One thing I have found out is that Cox's Indians had rounded head feathers and the others kept their feathers pointed.



Another was Bill Adkins

 

Here is Ken Beagle shooting one of his Indians

 

Dave B.

Could this be the Beagle Indian you remember ?

I cannot make out the club name but it starts with an M.

 

Tom Fry, Remington Bullet art.

 

Winchester Topperwein Indian. This went for $600.00 at an Icollector auction.


The auction was in April, 2013 and the Topperwein went for $600.00, and the Remington art all went for $400.00



There was one bullet art displayed in Vandalia at the THOF museum, but I can't find a pic of that at the moment.

 

I just ran cross this…
I certainly have seen Wilber Cox in action… He was my grandfather.

 

WOW.

btw, welcome to ats.

 

Bill Atkins was a Remington Pro from that era.
I have an old video of 5 shooters performing trick shots.
Wilbur, Bill and ken are all in it.
My grandfather trained bird dogs for Bill and when he would visit the farm he would give my dad free ammunition and would teach him trick shooting.
When I was young my dad would pitch up penny's and shoot them with a 22.
Guss

 

I love those old photos.

 

My Wilbur Cox Indian was from the inaugural shoot at National Capital Skeet and Trap Club in Darnestown, Maryland in April of 1954.