Win 21, Here to There and Back Again

[Pay Dirt]

I picked up this early Model 21 last year.
16 Gauge, Double Triggers, Splinter Forend, Factory choked Mod / Cylinder.
Model 21 "light" at 6 1/4 lbs
New Haven to Europe, repatriated to North Dakota and finally landing in Sunny SoCal.






Along the way someone figured to enhance this fine double
by cutting the stock and adding a primo ventilated recoil pad



Deserving better, I chose a modest piece of American Walnut.
Soon to receive non period correct 3 point checkering, wrists to checkered butt.

[James L. Martin]

That is a very light 16ga, I have a 20ga DT 26" model 21 that weights a few oz more. Good luck with your new stock, it looks very nice.

[Kensal Rise]

I've owned a number of Model 21s. And those with splinter forends and double triggers are the most rare. Good find. And NICE wood!

[nid-28]

I’ve got the same gun, a 1935 double trigger, straight grip 16 w/28” barrels bored cylinder and modified. It’s been to Argentina, Uruguay, Montana and some use in Maine, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. I got it in Massachusetts years ago and it surely was someone’s grouse gun. It’s never failed me and will be one of the last to go!

[Joe Graziano]

Very nice. I picked up an early 16 ga. with 26 in barrels, straight grip, DT and beaver tail forend, chokes C/IC. Someone had restocked with a very nice piece of walnut and finished with a leather covered pad. Sweet gun.

[James L. Martin]

Most people don't know it's a model 21 with a splinter forearm and double trigger. They are so used to seeing a single trigger and a beavertail forearm. My 20ga is a tournament grade with cylinder and mod chokes. Great grouse and woodcock gun.

[Pay Dirt]

Originally Posted by James L. Martin

Most people don't know it's a model 21 with a splinter forearm and double trigger. They are so used to seeing a single trigger and a beavertail forearm. My 20ga is a tournament grade with cylinder and mod chokes. Great grouse and woodcock gun.

Someone on this very site once likened the early DT 21's with SFE's to a blued Trojan.
Of all the nerve.

[todd allen]

I have carried a M-21 everywhere from Mexico to the North West Territories, California to the UP. Also. Packed a Holland and Holland Royal Sidelock Ejector up to a summit in Colorado (over 10,000 ft) chasing blue grouse. One of my favorite memories.
Lately, my working guns have been Parkers. Some guns just have a certain feel to the hand when carried in the field. Parker is one, for sure.
The shape of the receiver at the balance point has always been a factor (IMO) of the comfort of a great field gun. The M-21 ain't bad.

[Joe Graziano]

I figure with a M21 and M32, I have the best of both worlds, two guns at the peak of American double gun manufacture. I also love Parker’s and Italian guns. British and German guns (I lump the Krieghoff under M32) come next. Heck, I love double guns. Deciding which is best is like arguing if blondes, brunettes or redheads are prettier. I know my preference, but I’d never complain. Haha

[Kevin McCormack]

I have owned 5 of them, 2 twelves, 2 sixteens and 1 twenty. Built like bank vaults, shoot like a house afire, never malfunctioned and cheerful in all kinds of weather. Best of all I made modest sums of money on everyone of them when I sold them. Thanks Kurt, Jim, Ken and Warren! Always favored the longer barrels, splinter forend, and double triggers. Owned sns from 98 to 11942, every one a winner!