I've hunting most of my life but starting shooting Sporting Clays in the early 90's. I always liked a challenge so about 10 years ago I bought a Stevens 16ga and would shoot that time to time. About 3 years ago several of my sporting clay buds where shooting LC Smith shotguns and it looked like a lot of fun. Shortly after I was at a decoy auction and saw this old LC Smith Hammer Field gun with Damascus barrels I was the winning bidder, it so happened the Vinters shoot was close by that year, I took it and met the LC Smith Collectors they looked it over and thought it was safe to shoot. after the first pair broke I was hooked. The gun has been refinished keeping all the original parts and now hangs over several canvasbacks when not in use.