The first double I ever used was my father's Stevens Springfield 16 gauge, the gun with which I killed my first pheasant. That was back in 1965. The gun is still in my vault. The first double I ever owned was a Bernardelli Gamecock 20 gauge with 25 inch barrels. My wife and parents bought it from the old Paul Jaeger's shop, where it was sitting on the used gun rack, when I graduated from law school. Still have that one, too.