BUT, we're blessed with deer and turkeys. I saw 23 turkeys today on the way to work, most were still chicks. (or whatever small turkeys are called LOL)

BUT, we're blessed with deer and turkeys. I saw 23 turkeys today on the way to work, most were still chicks. (or whatever small turkeys are called LOL)

I've only shot 1 over and under, and it handled better then my mossy 500.

Since we are on the subject of shotguns.
When I was 4 my uncle gave me my first gun, it was an old Kessler bolt action 20 gauge.
He had got it in a trade from a guy who had painted the entire gun PINK to match his duck blind. I called it the pink panther.
I could barely hold the gun up, and didn't have the strength to aim it.
I was given the whole talk about being responsible and how when I was ready he would teach me how to shoot.
A few months later I had been really bad and my mom phoned my uncle and he showed up a little while later.
I remember him apologizing to me on how it was his fault, that he thought I was ready for the responsibility that came with owning a gun.
He then left with the gun.
I probably would have rather been skinned alive then have that conversation.
My behaviour changed real fast, and I knew better then to ask for the gun back.
A few months later he arrived with it again, and why the gun was taken away was never discussed.
When I was 13 I refinished the gun, not a very good job but it was my first attempt and I did it myself.
It will never be refinished again, my uncle passed away in 1998, and that gun will never leave the family if I can help it

But [censored] that thing is a tank

My first gun was a 20 gauge single barrel that Dad won on a punch board at the local store. He gave it to me for my 10th birthday. Still have that one, and like Yote above, it'll never leave the family as long as I have anything to do with it.