My Dad’s pride and joy was a Belgium Browning Sweet Sixteen he bought from his fishing buddyMack McAtee for $100. He helped a bud out of a tight spot and got his shotgun of a lifetime. He offered to sell it back to him but Mack knew that the Sixteenth meant more to my Dad than himself. That’s how buds run.
I use to collect Winchester 37s, they were cheap and it was my first shotgun I ever bought for myself. Picked up one in 16 gauge and the youngest boy liked it so well for squirrel hunting that he claimed it. Used it on up till his 16th Birthday and I got him a Dan LeFever double in sixteenth grade. He read Robert Ruark’s “The Old Man and the Boy till it was dogearred and I surprised him just like the boy in the book. The sixteen is a well balanced load and most shotguns are trim. Most of the classic English doubles are sixteen gauge for a reason.
