My great uncle had a 10ga hammer double behind the stove of the cabin and I always thought it was wonderful to look at, I'm pretty sure it was a Rem. One year my dad let me carry his 16 guage and he took the 10. We could still buy 2 7/8 #6s at the grocery store in Lilly WI and my dad shot his limit of grouse over his pointer, I missed a limit. I thought the hammer 10 was magical. I finally found a beautiful 16 guage hammer double, english stocked, silver inlays and beautiful paterns on the steel barrel I had no idea what damascuss was. I killed a truck load of grouse, snowshoe rabbits and pheasant with it. I learned about damascus and started to load blackpowder shells for it and shot it at local meat trap shoots, after I fired my first round it threw everyone of and never needed a shoot off to win the prize. I still have the gun it hangs on the wall in my sisters home in norther WI. I still shoot hammer doubles, I have six that still go to the duck blind every year. Once they hit 100 yrs old you have to take them out every year or they feel abandonned.
