I was 10 yrs old and it was my first season to carry a shotgun. My parents gave me a used bolt action 16ga, it worked fine while practicing, but at the first flush it wouldn't fire. We went back to my aunts cabin and dad worked on it a while and couldn't fix it. Grand-uncle Steve kept an old Rem 10ga hammer sxs in the closet behind the stove so dad borrowed it, we had to go to the local store(sold everything back then food, beer , bait, ammo, gas, oil) and they had a couple boxes of Green paper Remington 2 7/8" 6's on the shelf. Well dad filled his limit of grouse both days and I got none, I thought the old sxs was magic.
Dad and Mom gave me a brand new pump for Christmas, I shot it for trap for a long time but saved my lawn moving money and spent all $15 of it on an old sxs and it was my hunting gun, killed my first grouse on the wing with it.
I never could shoot a sxs very well for trap but in the field,, skeet and SC it is my goto kind of shotgun.
Last edited by oskar; 01/30/19 10:49 AM.
