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I'll be 65 in August. My first double was a 311 Stevens my dad bought me for HS graduation in 1963. Got my first pheasant that fall hunting the grape vineyards West of Fredonia N. Y. I can't remember a time when I have not had at least one double since then. Best Regards, Jack

I'm 55. Bought my 1st double, a 12guage Elsie field model that had seen better days, for 35.00 when I was 14 from a friend's Dad. After 3 years of ammo loaded with a Lee Loader, it would close on a 3 x 5 index card, and the barrels were ofset to the right about 3/64ths of an inch. It had 28" barrels, and chokes so tight it destroyed anything hit in close.
I am lucky I still have my fingers.

I am 7 1/2 in dog years. I like their counting system better than ours. Only a few have made the mistake of buying more guns than I seem too have bought in the last 4-5 dog years. I guess it is like dating ladies. I may not get the high dollar gals often, but I do enjoy the company of those I can afford and play with.

I'm 63 going on 16. Had my first nice WC Scott at 15 but the foreman said I needed to forward it onto the next stage if we were to meet production targets. Selfish man, obviously the £ pound was his God or even the shilling. After 48 years have passed I still ankerfor a really nice one with oak leaf engraving, I'll get there someday but it's all the others that pass through my hands that make life enjoyable.

Just turned 40 last december, my first double was a fox AE grade that I bought from a pawn shop for 700.00, I was 19 or 20.

Now that I know better, a dealer at the tulsa gun show stole it from me, He told me it had cut barrels since they were 26" but they touched!!

In retrospect, that gun was in great shape
Now I'm Pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!

H&H

My first double was a Peiper hammer 12 with laminated barrels that my brother left me when he went off to West Point in 1958. I shot low base shells in it for a little while, but only one hammer worked, so I "graduated" to a Stevens 5100 12 w/30" barrels. It was a bit much to carry and swing (our main upland game were California quail and cottontails), so I replaced it with an "American Round Action pre-64 (actually pre-war; but I hesitate to mention the model number....)Winchester" 16 SxS 28" IC/M which I am proud to say I still have and sometimes shoot.

Oh yeah, I'm 66.

I'm 58 and have been doulbe gun fan for over 40 years! As a teen my first SxS was an 12b JR Evans don't recall too many details but I remember it was marked London Fine Twist, had 32" barrels, loose as the provebial goose... the forend was attached with a key so she was an old girl.
Bores were horrible. Loaded black powder shells and killed many squirrels and rabbits!
Would never shoot an gun in that condition today!

I will be 40, March 1. I found doubles when I was 29 and have been hooked ever since. My son ( he turned 13 on 1-22 ) likes them too now and he shoots a 1889 LeFever.

This is painful. I'm 62 and you guys have made me do a count - I've got a baker's dozen if I've not overlooked anything, and they average about 71 years. Hmm, only about five get regular workouts, mostly skeet & trap.

54. Got the addiction for SXS after flings for years with o/u's. Think my first (really) was a Merkel that I bought Germany while stationed there in 1997. First classic was the 33rd Fox 16 gauge ever made that I picked up for $1,100 about 8 years ago. It had the early snap on forearm and the dealer (now deceased) seemed to think it was a Sterlingworth. Anyway, that was number one. I've now added a couple of SW's and also three different Parkers. Now working on my first custom Fox (or should I say its being worked on for me). I now have the addiction that's for sure.