45.
When I was 11 or 12, Dad let me carry a no name hardware store single shot .410.
Don't know what ever happened to that gun. Couple years after that, graduated to shuckers.
Shot the first of many wild ringnecks with an Ithaca M37 solid rib.
Back then, I thought the cadillac of all guns was a Belgian A5.
Just within the last ten years, I have gotten into double guns and within the last 5, side by sides.
I only own one now, but am slowly trying to acquire a mate. It has been a great hobby,
but it has had its low points. Biggest disappointment was not buying a G-grade Lefever about a
month ago at my local shop.
That one still stings. As someone put it in another post, "non-buyer's remorse."
-jim