How are taste’s and needs change with time

[Craig Larter]

As a young man in the 1960's I cut my teeth shooting my fathers Browning Sweet 16. At that point in my life my dream gun was a Browning Superposed but it was way out of reach. After college and my first job my first purchase was a Winchester 101 20ga. Pheasants were still abundant in western NY and 20's could still be used with lead for ducks. I then became a Ruger Red Label fan for a decade while hunting in coastal NJ. Back to western NY in the middle 80's and I went on a Winchester 23 kick for duck hunting. In the late 80's I got the AH Fox bug from my uncle who shot Fox guns. During the 90's and early 2000's I really got the Fox sickness and started the AH Fox collectors association and accumulated a nice grouping. About 10 years ago I bought my first Parker a CH 12ga with Bernard barrels, then the Parker bug really hit. Today my interest is waterfowl guns from the early part of the 20th century but I am not a one brand collector, they all interest me. My favorites are Fox. Parker, LC Smith, Lefever and Remington especially Model 11F's, E's and D's.