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of its limited range. But after I had proven my mettle .with that little pea shooter, Dad let me take his old single shot Stevens, 12 gauge.
Let me tell you this: After hunting squirrels with the .410, and then walking into the woods with that 12 gauge, I was sure there wasn’t a squirrel on that mountain that wasn’t going to be in the pot when I got back to the house. Trouble was, that 12 gauge didn’t have a break-open lever on it. To open the action, after you had fired the gun, you pulled back on the trigger again, and the gun would break open for reloading.
Well, you know what happened to a scrawny 11 or 12 year old, up there in the mountain, with unsure footing, trying to hit a squirrel in the top of a big hickory tree. When that old Stevens kicked, the recoil would about knock me down, and reflexively, I would pull back on the trigger. More than once, I wound up on the ground, with the open gun in my lap. Fortunately
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