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I am about in the middle of the group,52 and hope to be here many years longer.Its nice to see both the much younger and older here,especially those older members.My father in law is 85 and still hunts,not a lot but does use the old Stevens Double.
I started out with a Superposed,my dream gun then-still like them and have a few,in my 30's.
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39. I have been gunning and doubling for 60 plus years! I can well remember seeing damascus barreled guns stacked in gun shop corners at $15 bucks, take your choice.
Sure wish I could go back. I can well recall a shop that had a table full of Winchester levers piled on top of each other, $45 each. Oh, Oh Oh---. I had wunderlust but was very, very poor.
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41,thanks for the reminder  Been at this 10 years about.B4 that was 10 years of surplus guns. I blame it all on Flayderman! still pining for the holy grail
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I'm 47. I got my first double when I was in my early 20's an Ithaca SKB 100 20 gauge. Nice little gun but I could hit squat with it. Traded it off. Didn't get another double till I was in my late 30's, a Win 24 that I shot very well. Have several now and always have an eye open for another.
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58 next month and have been playing with SxSs for 30+ years, the last 20 or focused strongly on English guns. It's been an expensive pleasure.
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i`m a young 54!heehee.got my first double from a guy i hunted with when i was 18.a meridan damascus 12 ga,with the barrels already butchered to 28".shot a truckload of rabbits with so called light skeet loads for the tyme period.11/8 with 20 some grns of red dot.i traded a modern double for it because the guys wife wouldn`t let him shoot it.a ranger i bought at the old creekside gunshop in canandaiqua,ny.for the princely sum of $85.00.i still have both guns,he has since got to the great hunting ground in the sky.
tom carrier Creekside? Doug Turnbull's family owned that, IIRC. I lived in Rochester from '87-89.
“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead” - John Greenleaf Whittier
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48, going on 29. My first real double was a 20 gauge Darne, that I wish I still had, purchased in the mid 1980s, after I came back to the outdoors from sabatical- I discovered girls and beer. Got that out of my system (mostly, I think).
Lost my first hunting partner, my Dad, this past Easter, and will always wish I had a few more trips with him. My son is three, and I have a few of his Grandfather's guns held in reserve for him. I still have a Darne to use. A couple others, too.
Looking forward to lots more time in the field and on the water with the little guy.
So it continues.
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61. First double a 20ga. elsie at age 23. Haven't been without at least one since.
However, I do still have the 20ga. bolt action I was given when I was about 12.
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62 last Monday (Jan 18) and hunted with a Parker Trojan 12 ga. in '61 through '64. I "discovered" that old gun in my best friend's cellar under a pile of old decoys and other stuff. Hunted with it for almost four years. When my family moved to another town about fifteen miles away I had to return the Parker. I took a lot of pheasants and a few seasons of ducks with it. Been almost a half-century since I've seen that Parker and I sure would like to 'heft' her again.
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