Win 21, Here to There and Back Again
 

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.

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

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

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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.

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!

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!

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.

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. :nono:

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.

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

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!