I borrowed my father-in-law' s model 37 12 guage so I could take my wife goose hunting a few years ago. It was old, beat up, a bit rusty but I cleaned her up and my wife used it and got a goose with it on her first outing. It is such a fine gun that I really hated the fact that I had to give it back to my father-in-law after the season was over.