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In 1959, at age 8, I was given the use of a J.C. Higgins .410 S x S with the most gorgeous feathered cellulosic plastic walnut (Tenite) I had ever seen. That was my gun for the next 4 years, and I made good use of it. With it I took my first squirrels, doves, quail, rabbits, and did some deft work on the avian pests like owls and yellowhammers (flicker). I do not recall having ever fired a 2 1/2" shell in it, the entire four years. My Dad owned a large general merchandise country store, and sold ammunition. Remington "three inchers" was what he sold, and what I used.
The squirrels are yet rebuilding their numbers around here from my onslaught of market hunting them in the late 50s and early 60s.
SRH
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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1974, a brand new BSS 12 ga. with 26" ic/mod. barrels. Bought it in downtown Meridian, MS from Joe Felder at Leisure World. JR
Be strong, be of good courage. God bless America, long live the Republic.
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$325 for a svelt little 12 bore BC Myluck BLE with 30" F&M and double triggers. It still lives here, but sees daylight seldom.
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A 20ga Nitro Special that I restocked, should have kept it to remind me of what not to do.
I learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what I learned the day before was wrong
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Bernardelli umberto 1. Still have my New England single shot I got as a child
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Sidelock
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A prewar 16 gauge Prussian guild gun made in Suhl. Gil
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Sidelock
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Mine was a Manton muzzleloader 13 bore I picked up at the NMLRA summer nationals in Friendship Indiana in 1985.
Matt aka Iowa_303
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My first SxS was a 12 gauge Stevens 311, with chopped 24” bbls., restocked in the heaviest, most dense bastogne I have ever seen then or since. It was gifted to me by my friend and mentor Michael Nally of Wichita, Kansas. Mike has a serious love affair with Winchester 21’s, I guess he figured I had to start somewhere, so it might as well be at the very bottom! At the time, I was a very young E-4 in the AF with a line for E-5, a wife and newborn baby, extra money was hard to come by to say the least. I proudly used that gun for a few years as my go to skeet gun and to take all sorts of feathered game with. I eventually gifted it to a young family member who was getting interested in shotgunning. With all that said, my first “fine” gun was a early 50’s vintage 12 gauge Ithaca Model 37. To me....that beautiful Ithaca was the equivalent of a Purdey. :-)
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In 1973 I was a young Army Second Lieutenant stationed st Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg,PA. into a Gunshop nearby looking for 1903 Springfield’s. Letterkenny had been the distribution point for DCM and the surrounding area was full of DCM guns. On the rack was a 12GA Ithaca Flues in nice condition for $75. Even then that was a very low price. The kid on duty thought that was a low price too but he sold it to me. When I got it home I noticed that the dollar sign on the price tag had three vertical lines. The price was really $175! I used it that season for wild pheasant and loved it. I hunted so much with it so much that the solder separated at the muzzles. I had it fixed three times before I found a competent gunsmith to permanently fix it. I traded it off for a Browning Superposed because it had ejectors. It would be another 12 years before I went back to SXSs. For the most part now that is all I use except for an occasional dalliance with automatics.
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A 12g Miroku 500 was the first I bought. I sold it, and shouldn't have. My Grandfather's Beretta 410E was the first I used. I still have it.
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