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#504665 02/11/18 07:36 PM
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Thought it would be fun see what your first sxs was that got us to this point in our life's.
A 20 guage Hopkin and Allen.was my first sxs I killed my first grouse with it at age 9.

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A Sears and Roebuck boxlock 12 gauge. Quickly replaced with a 3rd rate English hammer gun


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1914 LC Smith Field grade w/the short-lived push-button (Curtis?) forend.

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1971 purchased a W W Greener 8 Bore top lever double rifle with a cracked stock. Paid $750.00 for it. I would like to have it back some day!

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My dad gave we boys a used circa 1900 Parker 20 ga on a 28 ga frame and I still have it. I will post a pic when I have time to load one.

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A 16 gauge Winchester M-24. Second hand but came with 5 boxes of ammo and a canvas take down case with wooden cleaning rod. Still have it. I know the shotgun police pan this model BUT for a 12 year boy--it was the best thing ever. I drag it out every now and again for a round of skeet. Points good! I remember hunting with my Dad and kicking up a ringneck. He missed with his Parker but I dropped it at the barn gate-a long way away. Maybe it had a heart attack?? Anyway, a fond memory. I used to empty the shell boxes and count the shells as I carefully stacked them back into their box. Also getting up at 4AM to go on a hunt with Dad and his buddies. We had breakfast at a place called Priors on Rt 19 on our way to my uncles farm in Mercer County, PA. I was in deep cotton! Ah, those were the days-now only a memory in an old feeble brain. My next shot gun was an Ithaca grade 3E with 2 sets of barrels--purchased about 40 years later. Kids, house, tuition, etc, y'all get the drift I am sure.

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The first double I got to use, was a 1964 vintage Silver Snipe that my Dad bought new, in 1964. I think he said it was $168, and I think my Mom would be furious to this day if she found that out. I got to use that well above my pay grade gun for two wonderful seasons when I was 12-13, until my Mom got me a Companion hammerless single shot when I was 14. My Dad never took much of a shine to the Beretta, and mostly used the A5 he bought when he made staff sergeant in 1952.

I have all three of those guns now, but, no longer have my Dad.

Early 1980s, R15 20 gauge Darne, straight stock, 29" tubes marked IC and IM if I remember correctly. My first double, and I hit it out of the park, as far as I was concerned. I had a hard time missing birds or clay with the gun, and sold it after an engraving snob noted the pattern was not up to previous efforts we had seen (it wasn't, but, he didn't shoot).
The shop I sold it to altered the chokes and then offered it back to me, and, not near as wisely as I had been when I sold it, I none the less wisely, passed.

But, it haunts me to this day. That gun, along with a 16 gauge Charlin a friend of mine now owns, was pictured in the DGJ piece I penned, back in the day.

In 1979, I bought my little brother a 12 gauge Savage Fox BSE with 30" tubes, single trigger, and ejectors in great second hand condition for Christmas. He didn't turn out to be a bird hunter, but, has used the gun, loaded with slugs, to take a bunch of deer over the years. The first barrel puts the slug into the center of the bull at 50 yards.
The second barrel puts it's slug somewhere else. We have NEVER figured out where, but, it is sideways through the paper at about 10 paces.
I have replaced the buttstock, worked on the ejectors, and, worked on the single trigger over the years. It is all working, at the moment. But, my brother is disabled, and, in poor health, at this point in his life, and I strongly suspect it will be back at my house at some point in the future. It will have a home, and my Son and Wife will hear the story.
I don't look forward to it, however.

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A Dickson Falcon (Ugaratecha Spelling?) 60's Spanish import off a pawnshop gun rack. It was labeled as a 16 gauge, it had some pretty engraving, when I went to shoot it the box of ammo I bought didn't fit right - it was a 12 gauge. At the time that was better for me so no big deal.
I had no clue on shotguns at the time, I was into handguns mostly 1911's.
30 years later I rarely touch a gun other than a shotgun 16 to 10 gauge.
A friend of mine has that gun now.

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After shooting O/U's for a number of years, I scratched the itch for a SxS at a local gun show and picked up a Browning BSS 12ga. sporter. Stayed with it and came to prefer SxS's, finally selling my O/U's. Been smitten ever since. After my Merkels and BSS-SL's, I've just picked up my first English SxS. I'm in trouble now!
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