IMPULSE BUY-WINCHESTER MODEL 23

[Cold Spring]

Steve, it sure looks like a great purchase. Just one personal data point - a friend bought a 12-ga Model 23 for NSCA SxS events a few years back and had trouble with its single trigger not always resetting for the second barrel. A mutual friend - graduate of the Trinidad Gunsmithing School - has worked on it a number of times and while the gun is now more reliable, owner still gets 4-5 failures to fire second barrel on a 100 round clays course. And that puts him over the 3X malfunction limit and he starts losing birds. Net, he isn't using the 23 for registered sporting. I'm a little foggy on this info but I seem to remember gunsmith friend telling me that what parts remain are only available from a sole source which is in Canada. I guess what I'm saying is, if you can work a deal with the seller to test fire the gun extensively on a course or clays field, that might be prudent. Again, this is only one data point.