doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Average age of BBSers

I'm 51, my first double was a Stevens 311 that I lost when our house burned down. The second was an Ithaca SKB 280E 20ga that someone else thought they needed more than me when they stole it from my truck. The third was a Browning BSS 12 that was way to heavy and then I went to O/U's for 20+ years. I got back into SXS's a couple of years ago and was bitten hard by the bug. This was the first year that I never even took anything but a SXS into the field and can't see myself using anything else in the future. I have been selling some of the O/U's and auto's to feed the SXS fetish!!

51 here. First double was a browning trap combo in the late 80's. I got hooked on the SxS in 07 thanks to Coryreb. And a little 311a 20g sealed the deal. After finding a few Ithaca 16's I started reading Mr Snyders posts and book. I am hooked.

64, be 65 in April. Was rised with me Dad's 16 gauge L.C. Smith Hammer Gun. Bought my first new O/U, a Model 101 in 1964 and first new SxS, a BSS 20 ga. Sporter in 1978.

62, I think?? Bought my first SXS at 15 from an older gent in town. Unknown Hammer 12 bore, thought it to be the ideal squirrel gun, doubled with both hammers cocked. Still have a bone bruise on my right index finger from wrestling with that puppy. I've been horse kicked with less distress. Should have laid off the magnum loads, but the tops of those Ohio hickory and oak's needed the extra reach of those big candles. In 68, bought my first SXS, Went to school at Adrian College, Michigan and 20 miles down the road was Richland Arms. They always had racks of all sorts of foreign double guns. So I bought a lightweight Richland sxs 20 ga. 3". It reinforced the pain from my early SXS venture. From the early 70's till the 90's my upland and waterfowl was served by a Beretta 657 O/U 12. I sold the Beretta to buy my first vintage SXS, a Fox SW 12 and the fun began. Randy

53, My first shotgun was a late Belgian A-5 "Light 12" in my youth of about 19. I don't recall anything light about that gun. I hunted it off and on in my twenties on dove and a trip or two to So. Dakota for pheasant. I bought my first sxs around 1984 when I was 28. It was a BSS 12g. I shot that gun pretty darn well. A good handful of 25's in skeet were with that gun. I couldn't stand leaving it alone and shortly after I bought it, I had Briley chokes installed. That gun was my only sxs for until about 10 yrs ago. I don't recall what sxs I bought next, but I do recall an affliction with LC Smiths for a while. Still have a few. I went the way of Fox and Parkers and Ithacas. I had a Spanish gun for a while, but sold it. Still haven't warmed up to foreign guns much, although I have a couple Beretta guns and have had a number of Japanese Brownings in o/u and sxs. 410 and 20g American sxs's are my current interest.

50.
Still running

Geno, nice picture, are you the one holding the bobcat or the men next with the gun. When I come to Russia in octobre maybe we meet at some place. St Petersburg is far from Nizhny Novgorod.
But it is not impossible that I visit St Petersburg.
Marc.

I'm 70, bought my first double when I was 52, a Savage Fox 12 gauge.
I've been through many more since then.

Pete

Lynx?

I made photo. I shot the bigger one, male, total 2 cats this winter.
Marc, call me +7-921-9674883. thou it's pretty far away from me