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Originally Posted by Phil Yearout
My first sxs was much lower on the food chain: a simple 16ga Stevens-made Springfield marked 5100. Twas my companion for many seasons and I sometimes think I shoot it better than any of my small arsenal - I once took a limit of four wild prairie roosters with four shots from that lowly old gun. I still have it; it's been demoted several times, moving down the row in the cabinet to its current resting place in a rack I made at the end of my desk for overflow. It has come out on the occasional rainy day...
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Phil, One doesn't see many of those Stevens guns in that kind of shape. That's a beauty.
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