When I was growing up I was far more interested in taking the game (primarily quail and grouse) than I was in what I was taking it with. I would just grab my Grandads 20 ga Remington 1100 and be off. The first time I ever used a double was on a crow hunt at the county dump. I needed a 12 gauge and a neighbor let me use his old Stevens model 215 "rabbit ear" gun. Several years later I was going to a turkey / trap shoot and again wanted to use a 12. A fellow I worked with loaned me a German double with Krupp steel barrels that he brought back from WWII. After that, single barrel guns lost their luster. I decided I wanted a double of my own so I found an old gentleman who had a 20 gauge Stevens model 315 that had belonged to his wife and we struck up a deal. Over the years I upgraded it with a new stock, recoil pad, case coloring, rust blued barrels, engraving and gold wedding bands around the breech. Then I read a book titled, The Parker Gun ... and I was hooked. I found 12088, grade 2 hammer gun with 28" bbls in an estate in Vermont, bought it, shot several thousand rounds through it, got a letter and will never sell that gun.
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