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King, I love that mantra. And I apply it to most areas of my life. I work in consumer products with retailers and I hate shopping....for anything. I try to buy most things I really need slightly used....just as good, half the price. One of the best attitudes I ever developed is that I don't buy unless it is a quality item perfectly suited to my needs. Easier to do now that I am single again. LOL

But I do allow myself some indulgences.....guns and hunting. And I have a son and a bunch of nephews to indoctrinate into our passion for doubles. They all hunt when they can.

As an aside, with the American makers, I have the Foxes and a couple Remingtons and am on the lookout for the right Lefever. For some reason Parkers and Elsies don't do it for me.

What club? I used to shoot at the Hermon Skeet Club with with an AyA 4 and a Merkel boxlock (147 E, I think). Great 5 Stand, and great people!

We shoot at the Arnold Trail club in Sidney, ME.

King, My old fox was a 1929. And my LC is one of the early Marlin era guns, 1946, from what I've read, still built at the Hunter Arms factory, just under new ownership.

I also own an old Ithaca Lewis, built in 1903. Stub twist barrels, barrel serial #s don't match the the receiver, but sweet handling gun nonetheless. I shoot it with my handloaded 2" black powder loads and proven it on backyard bushytails.