Well my grandfather on my mother's side was the real birdhunter in the family, my dad hunted once in awhile but wasn't possessed like some of us. My grandfather had a rib and beavertail put on a model 42 and gave it to my dad who liked a pump gun, and for what its worth when you grow up with you're dad bringing home a fair amount of pheasants with his only shotgun , a .410, its pretty hard to swallow all the crap about a .410 being worthless and all. Grandpa had a 20ga Francotte 30E and a 16ga Merkel 201E both of which he was very effective with, the sideby was no doubt his favorite though. I am very lucky that all three are safely tucked in the safe in the corner but much luckier actually that I was instilled with the want to keep them and make sure they all get there turns at what they were ment to do.
