I'll be 59 in March. My first double was a Savage O/U I bought in Billings about 1973(?). A genuine POS, but I saw an experienced trap shooter run about 20 birds the gun. I never could hit a thing with it and graduated to a Model 12 I bought in Ketchikan the next year. The oldest, longest owned shotgun I have is a 20 ga. single-barrel flintlock fowler I built for myself in 1985.