I remember as a small boy, my father duck hunting with a double. Then, as I grew up, I read Elmer Keith and Frances Sell. By the time I was 16, I had a Lefever Nitro special 20ga. It was ugly, but my what patterns it would throw. I was much younger and more ambitious then. I shot several hundred patterns with it and different loads, and counted every pellet strike! LOL. It was all downhill from there. Now I own 3 SXS, and 2 O/U, and have traded off a whole bunch.