Phunter, I started with double guns in 2004, joined here in 2009 and am 55. I still consider my self a newbie on these subjects and while I'm on other guns sites, I find this is the real go to site for serious knowledge. Quite a number here have been incredibly generous with their knowledge and I look forward to the day I feel like I can pay it forward to future newbies 20 years from now. Have a bit more learning to do still.
Buried in all of lonesome's humour, I believe, is the belief that the more things change, the more they stay the same. There will always be some segment of hunters and gun enthusiasts that fall under the spell of these guns. That won't change.
In fact, I have a long term plan to bring in new blood. I have no intention of dying and letting my guns be sold. A few will go to my son but for the rest..... I want to see the look on some young man's (or woman's) face when I gift him a classic from 130 years earlier. Hopefully, it might just be what he needs to really start a lifelong passion.
But not yet.......
