Winchester Model 12 Featherweight 12 gauge

[Bill Murphy]

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

[Larry the Gun Guy]

[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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[Double Lab]

Can't see the Cutts but I happen to like them. Wood is gorgeous.

[Jim Beilke]

My Dad use to refer to the Cutts as a Corn Cob on the end of the barrel

[Researcher]

I suppose I'll get flamed for this, but I find that coarse checkering and stippling around the fleur-de-lis on high grade post WW-II Model 12 and 21s pretty poor compared to what our factories were putting out on high grade Parker Bros., Remington, Lefever, etc. doubles sixty years earlier. The checkering on the F-Grade Remington pumps and autos being made concurrently with those Model 12 and 21s was better.

[Larry the Gun Guy]

What is interesting is when Remington wanted to do it, they were the best. Engraving and the checking is second to none. Unfortunately, they decided that they didn’t want to do it moving forward. What a shame. But, thankfully, we have available to us some of their best efforts.

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

I suppose I'll get flamed for this, but I find that coarse checkering and stippling around the fleur-de-lis on high grade post WW-II Model 12 and 21s pretty poor compared to what our factories were putting out on high grade Parker Bros., Remington, Lefever, etc. doubles sixty years earlier. The checkering on the F-Grade Remington pumps and autos being made concurrently with those Model 12 and 21s was better.

Yes, but then look at the British Bests, H & H, as an example.