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I am sure he knew that the "trap grade" magnum Model 12 was a put together gun at best and a fake at its worst.
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In the 1936, 1937 and 1938 Winchester catalogs on the Model 12 Heavy Duck page it states that it can be had in Standard, Standard Trap, Special Trap and Pigeon Grades. In the 1939 catalog it states under the Heavy Model 12 Duck Gun "Standard Grade as shown--Trap Gun or Pigeon Grade.
By the 1941 catalog one could get his or her Model 12 Duck with checkered stock and forearm for $3.03 extra, with checkered stock and forearm of semi-fancy walnut for $9.28 extra, or checkered stock and forearm of full-fancy walnut (includes hand smoothed working parts) for $18.16 extra. Same as above with extension slide handle $5.30, $11.55 or $20.43 extra.
Such a fancy Model 12 Heavy Duck Gun languished at Krasne's Sporting Goods in San Diego most of the three years I was there.