Winchester 21 - 16 bore in high society

[Cold Spring]

So today I shot 50 sporting along with the gang while using my Winchester 21 Skeet gun - 16 bore with its WS-1 and WS-2 barrel. She's a two barrel set and the second barrel is Mod & Full. Both 28-inch and weight with either barrel is 7^0 +/- a small fraction of an ounce. Here she is, second from left and flanked by a Benelli Super Sport Custom Shop semi and three competition Perazzis. The Winny shot pretty well but I can't say the same about a really long LOP Sterly Ejector gun I picked up recently and shot for the other 50. Two very different guns on the same clays outing, recipe for a poor score.

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[Dean Romig]

Nice checkering on that Benelli





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[Opening Day]

Hell Frank, I do that all the time shoot a different gun each time, if not why own them all.... Also my eyesight doesn't help things either

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Eric Eis

Hell Frank, I do that all the time shoot a different gun each time, if not why own them all.... Also my eyesight doesn't help things either

But your eyes are good enough to pick out some nice guns.

[charlie cleveland]

nice winchester and a 2 barrel set makes it even better....charlie

[davidboyles]

Frank I have a two bbl Skeet grade 12 ga with one bbl 30"mod and Full other 28" WS-1 WS-2 late 40's in a Redhead LOM 2 bbl case makes an ideal package for about anything. I'm going after doves Wed with all 16's my favorite ga. First is one I have written about it is a 30" DHE, Model 21 16 GA. 28" WS-1 WS-2 Straight stock and old standby VHE 16 30" Full and IC makes a great dove gun. Good hunting with your 16's.

[Cold Spring]

Thanks everyone. This is a pre War Model 21 that was sent back to Winchester for fitting of its M&F barrel and forend upgrade to the later type with brace and draw screw. Independent safety as typical for the M21 Skeet. She has the Winchester logo HRBP. The two barrels sure make her an all around gun for upland and ducks over backwoods streams, beaver ponds and swamps.

[Cold Spring]

I finally got around to requesting Cody research and yesterday received info that the original order sheet for this Model 21 isn't available but there’s a Repair Order dated late December 1944. Besides some other small work, it covered fitting an extra set of 16 gauge/28" barrels, Right Improved Modified and Left Full. Finished in mid-March 1945. That delay was no doubt due to war work. Interesting that the Right barrel breech is understamped Mod instead of Imp Mod. One of these days I'll get around to patterning her to compare bare shot with modern shotcup loads.

Old timers told me when I was a kid that shotgun shells were severely rationed during the War and I wonder why the owner gent got the second barrel set fitted right then? As said many times, if these old guns could talk.….

Ringneck load of my youth …..

[charlie cleveland]

that load was a good stout load i have shot some of these loads myself....charlie