Home Forums Birds & Dogs Shotguns When you were a kid, what shotgun did you want most ???

I always dreamed of a Winchester 101.Settled for a secondhand Marlin boltaction until I earned enough to buy my first Rem 870.

Ithaca flues. Had an older mentor and thats what he put in my hands. SxS 12 gauge. Have now a Beretta 471 Silverhawk in 12, Merkel model 8 12 gauge ,Uggie SxS 20 and a Beretta 391 12 .almost bought that Flues last year. Still in the market.

Dad's A5.

An 870 Wingmaster.

And to this day I have never owned one. Probably owned 20 shotguns, and bought 870's for my kids, but I still haven't owned one for myself
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I don't know if I wanted it MOST, but I started out with a H&R single shot 12ga that kicked like a mule and always wanted something that would hold more ammo. The summer between 7th and 8th grade I bought a sears and roebuck 12 ga bolt action with my paper route money ($20) and was in 7th heaven. The first pheasant I shot was with the third shot, while shooting left handed because I had a broken right arm. Couldn't have been any more exited and happy.

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.

Browning Superposed. Didn't know anyone who had one, just liked the pictures. By the time I could buy one, I didn't want it any more, but I lusted for one at the time.

Remington 3200 or an 1100.

Lefever B Grade 20ga and Winchester Model 21 Duck Grade 12ga.

Just was in WI and got a picture of the old 16ga hammer double that was my dream shotgun that I posted about.

A Fox model B SxS 12 guage just like my Grandpa used to Quail hunt with . He got me a 311 to start and I now have that that passed down Fox in the safe .

Browning Superposed 20ga!!!!!!

I at last came to my senses and got a 16ga SXS.

I wanted a M21 Win, but got a M37 16g Win. Close, just one barrel short.

My dad's bird gun, an L.C. Smith 16ga IC/Mod Ideal Grade. I am now 63 and my dad is 93. He has given me other very fine guns, even a Parker VHE 20ga. I guess it's the memories that I retain of hunting quail with my dad and his ability to teach me, train our dogs, and his mastery of that gun. I will get the gun that I wanted some day, but it will be bitter sweet. If I live to be an old man, that gun will really never be mine. It will always remain my father's bird gun, and it will be treasured, and passed on to my son.

Never hunted with a shotgun in my youth. The first year that I was married at age 21 my wife bought me a Remington 870 Wingmaster in 20 gauge, and have three barrels for it. I used it for deer, turkey, rabbits, squirrels, ducks, and it still looks new except for a couple of pock marks on the receiver from a saddle scope mount. I love this shotgun like an old friend.

My dream gun was a drilling. I ended up with one at age 16, after working all summer as a wealthy eye surgeon's gardener. He gave me a wonderful Prussian Sauer-Charles Daly Regent grade 12/12/30-30. Three years later it was lost in a home burglary.

Ithaca Deluxe Model 37 16 ga. just like my fathers.

870, which I finally got when I was 14. $99 and an extra barrel for $9.95

Oh, luv2, I bet that hurt!!!