I too started with a used Winchester Model 67 Single Shot, bought from a neighbor kid, I think I paid $7.00 back in 1953. My first Shotgun was a Savage hammerless 20Ga single shot, bought brand new from Custom Gun Shop in Grand Rapids MI. Grew up on a little dairy farm NW of GR, we would milk a cow and watch a ringneck fly in by the creek, then walk down and flush him out. One neighbor kid had some little Twenty Bore side by side that all the rest of us lusted after. My first SxS was a Spanish 20Ga that somehow has multiplied. I only have one Parker at the moment, have had four over the years.
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