My Dad was given a Volunteer Firearms 16 gauge when he was 12 years old. I still have it. He shot my Uncle's Model 97 that had been used during the market hunting days for ducks on the Texas Gulf Coast. They had a spread of 4 dozen wooden decoys of which I have 12, various makes. I actually hunted over them as a teenage boy. Sadly, the turn of the century Model 97 was stolen from my dad's house many years ago. Great memories pawned for a few $$$'s by some punk.

Jim