I shot a deer in 1962 and always contended I'd have rather had the two grouse I saw that morning. A few years later I traded my sporterized Remington 03A3 off on my all time favorite bird gun "Meat in the Pot" and never had any desire to go big game hunting again.

Have a 1918 20ga.Sweet little gun. 2 1/2" chamber ejects old AA Winchesters just fine. https://i.postimg.cc/KzF4F41X/1362713-IMG-6812.jpg

Only have a few M12’s left.
This one is 1A engraved with B carved wood. It has 11 factory options.
Made in 1952.
It was owned by a Winchester Salesman.

Only have a few M12’s left.
This one is 1A engraved with 11 factory options.
It was owned by a Winchester Salesman.

Did that one come from Capt Jon Wilson? He had some very nice ones and his dad was a salesman. Dad would drop him off in the stock room and the old guys would give little Jon a piece of Pine to carve on to keep him occupied

A really exceptional and original Pigeon Grade with the rare and unusual coarse early 1950s checkering. Wow.

Keith, Here is the story. I think it was around 2001, this gun was listed on gun broker by Buffalo Bills shooting emporium in Florida. There were several very bad pictures and the gun went through two cycles with no interest.
I thought at first it was an upgrade as we all know there are a ton of them out there.
What I noticed from the pictures was the Winchester name coming through the leather covered pad. I thought if it was upgraded no way would they have used a Winchester pad to cover with leather.
I called and they didn’t know much about it except that the owner lived in the neighborhood and told them his father worked for Winchester as a salesman and this was his gun.
I struck a great deal as they had no interest in it.
You can’t imagine how happy I was when I opened the box!
It is one of my favorite Model 12’s, and I think if you only want one example, this is it.

16ga Pigeon Skeet engraved by Nick Kusmit. https://i.postimg.cc/HW76JQCm/IMG-1456.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/tCjNYw5d/IMG-1464.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/zGdC2B1p/IMG-1465.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/DzHqFM0X/IMG-1454.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W3Z04wqf/IMG-1459.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/VvBMqsRq/IMG-1466.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Hsdbp5YB/IMG-1463.jpg

And checkered by Winchester wood man, John Durkin. What a great gun.

Model 12s Galore
 

[QUOTE=Eddie Kay;434972]16ga Pigeon Skeet engraved by Nick Kusmit.

That's two WOW Model 12s in a row. Or Double WOW!

I bought this little 20 gauge from "The World's Foremost Outfitter" just for the wood. It's a WS-1 Skeet gun and I was going to put the wood on another WS-1 20 gauge Skeet gun I have. However, after I started shooting it I love it. It breaks targets like I can't believe, even though it's hideious looking because of the Cutts Compensator. It's obvoiusly not done correctly, but it is pretty wood.
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