What Won't You Buy??

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

A Winchester Model 24.

Wish I had read this sooner. I feel depressed. Just shipped to my gunsmith the stock and forearm of a 12 gauge Model 24 on Friday. Someone put an elaborate checkering pattern on the forearm wood. They thinned the original stock, put a silver cap with a mountain scene on the pistol grip bottom, and added a Pachmayr White-Line pad. But they did not checker it. So it's off to add a period correct red Winchester pad and checker the stock to match the forearm wood.

I have two of them, the custom one and an unaltered one. On both of them the chokes are marked modified and full on the barrel flats. Both are actually improved cylinder and full. Great choke combination and I suspect all of them came that way. I've had great luck shooting them at doves. Not pretty but they apparently fit me well and at 7 1/2 pounds there is no recoil. I would buy a 20 gauge Model 24 in a minute.

[Bill Murphy]

Winchesters marked "modified" generally measure out to "improved cylinder". Your gun was probably not modified from its original configuration.

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Winchesters marked "modified" generally measure out to "improved cylinder". Your gun was probably not modified from its original configuration.

Both made twenty years apart measure exactly the same, I.C. and Full. I am sure they have not been opened for no evidence of it.