“I was just trying to add a little humor to the agenda, so I brought my old double barrel shotgun in with my action open and set it there on the podium,” Albrecht told me this week.

YANTIS — Since I started hunting I have liked double-barreled shotguns. Like most people you have an affinity for the first gun you hunt with and for me that was a 16-gauge double.

One player on X named @WoykaTV even thinks that the Double Pump will bring them back to the glory days, a common sentiment among OG fans today. The fun of Chapter 1 is almost upon the Island.

The shotgun uses a break-open, side-by-side barrel design and is chambered for 12-ga. shells of up to 3” in length. Its sighting system is a simple brass bead mounted on the rib at the front end.

Before the advent of pump-action and semi-automatic smoothbores, if you wanted, or needed, a fast second shot, your only recourse was a double-barrel shotgun. Today, that same option still reigns ...