I hunted the 1959 season with my Mother's RANGER that had been stocked for her by my great uncle --
I then bought a Winchester Model 50 vent rib field gun. Used it for the 1960 into the 1962 season. Sitting out in the cattails in our duck boat, a hunter on the uplands flushed a rooster pheasant that flew right by me and I couldn't shoot at it becase the Model 50 was jammed on a swollen paper shell. When I got back to the landing and my Father and his buddy were picking me up I recounted the story. My Father's comment was "that wouldn't have happened with one of my old double barrels!" I finished out the 1962 season using his 16-gauge AE-Grade Remington. (P136036, stolen out of his house years later) Before the 1963 season started the Model 50 and a Winchester Model 43 .22 Hornet, and some cash were traded off for an Ansley H. Fox HE-Grade Super-Fox with 32- and 28-inch barrels. Before the 1966 season started I also got a straight-gripped A-Grade 12-gauge with 28-inch barrels which has been my favored upland gun ever since. Openning weelend 1966, limit of ducls with the Super-Fox and first Pheasant with the A-Grade --
