First shotgun was a Winchester 42 my dad bought from a co-worker in the early 50's for $25. The man had bought the gun for his wife. She
had fired 1/2 of a box of Peters 2 1/2" shells (from a full wooden crate) and announced that she in no way wanted anything to do with guns or hunting. Infuriated, he sold the gun (it was like new) and the remaining case of Peters shell still in the wooden crate to my father. I with the help of my brother managed to shoot up the case of shells and then graduated to 3" shells as we soon discovered the 'need' to magnumize the little gun. I regretably sold it off about 25yrs ago in a time of $$ need. It was only a field grade but what a nice little shotgun it was. It only needed a better shooter and hunter behind it to realize it's potential I'm sure. ....I still have that wooden shell crate under my bench...
