My first gun was a single shot .410 given to me by my dad on my first pheasant hunting trip in Idaho.
Don't remember the model number maybe a 37? but it was a Winchester and stamped all steel built on the barrel.
My guess is it was stamped all steel built because this was a time when they were getting away from the old damascus barrels.
This shotgun was given to him by an uncle.
He told me he got his first deer with that shot gun on the dairy farm when he was a kid.
Said the deer walked by so close he could almost touch it with the barrel.
It wasn't long before I bought a twelve gauge pump but I still remember shooting jack rabbits and grouse with that gun and can still smell the gunpowder.
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