What Shotgun did you shoot your FIRST bird with? and do you still have it?

My dad bought me a single shot Baikal 20 gauge when I was 14 around 40 years ago. He was a very skilled wing shot, me, not so much. He tuned up every fall with Wilson's snipe. We hunted those things every night with our springer spaniel, he would flush them, you would hear that weird noise and then try to shoot the damn things as they cartwheeled through the air. Took me 20 shots and several nights before I got my first one, and I know my Dad passed on a lot of shots to let me try to take them. I've still got that gun, and once in a while I take it out for grouse. When I first came to Northern Ontario it was the only shotgun I had, and it killed a lot of birds. No plastic parts on those old Baikals, everything was solid.
 
Ruffed grouse ( aka partridge around here) with a Winchester 37 12 gauge single shot. Forend had a habit of working lose, and would kick like a s.o.b. until it was tightened up again. Kind of wish I'd kept it, if only for sentimental reasons.
 
12 gauge double barrel, left barrel nfg, right barrel good, one in chamber, one more handy = one mallard. I was ten that beast was heavy. R.I.P. Geido.
 
It was a crow with my dads Winchester Model 12. I have a love affair with that gun and now own 3 of them and someday look forward to getting passed down his. It gets taken out a couple times a year for ducks, just for old times sake.

In all honesty, I still rank it higher than most pump guns I pick up.
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HP9 with Remington 26" bbl mod choke and thumb hole stock. Shot my first grouse with a shotgun this past weekend as before that it was all pot shots with the 22. Still have the gun haha but invested in a 870 in 20ga as my grouse specific shotgun.
 
Ruffed Grouse with my Dad's .410. It's a single shot Stevens with a 3 digit serial number made around 1913. It belonged to his Dad before him and now it's in my safe. That little gun has probably taken a couple hundred birds in it's 101 year history.
 
lanber sporter o/u 12g and first bird was a woodpigeon

bizzarely my first outing with that shotgun i managed to pull out a 15lb salmon
out of the river dee,malpas,Uk.i literally walked behind it as it was resting and pulled it out.
 
Pheasant with Fathers Rem 870 made in1951, I still own it. 1951 is first year of production. A few years back I came across another older one and bought it, later about two years l happened to compare serial numbers and found out it and my fathers were 260 apart in serial number. So i phoned Remington to find age. A lady was filling in for the guy who usually dose the historian stuff told me both made in 1951 first year of production. About a month later I get a call from Remington and the historian offered me a new 870 high end model in exchange for them. I kept them
 
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