Model 21, Badge of Honor

[Bill Murphy]

We can reenact the display for next year's Baltimore Show if there is interest. I haven't sold anything and maybe there will be a few surprises, like my CSMC Model 21 .22 squirrel gun. I think Tony is through building them. I may put out my complete collection of Model 21 catalogs, if there is room. How about my 20" barrel 3" Magnum Duck. No, it doesn't letter. Sorry, no gold inlaid Grand Americans.

[Bill Murphy]

Kevin's displays at Baltimore, over many years, with a little help from me, were part of the history of PGCA. It's too bad that we had to discontinue them. Some of them, "Pigeon Guns", "Parker .410", "Model 21", "Parker 28 Gauge", "Super Fox", included some of the rarest and most interesting shotguns most of us have ever seen. We wish Kevin good luck in finding some of the pictures of many years of displays. Baltimore is this week. See you there.

[Alfred Houde]

On the subject of the Winchester Model 21, can someone tell me what the silver dot or solder mark between the lug and the flats is?

[Dean Romig]

That’s the filled weep hole that was drilled when soldering and blueing the barrels.





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[Alfred Houde]

I figured it was a weep hole. Is it safe to say that they do not appear to have been reblued? It's tough when you don't have it in front of you.

[Cold Spring]

The hole was factory plugged with a steel pin, likely a taper fit but I’m not sure of that. The pin was left in the white (unfinished) on all the original 21’s I’ve seen and owned. If the pin head is blued it’s usually a sign the barrels have been redone.

[Alfred Houde]

Thanks. I guess I should have known that, but always good to ask.

Like my old Gunner used to say - "Try and learn something new every day."

[todd allen]

I have an old M 21 built in 1953. I sent it off to be gone through by Lefever, probably about 30 years ago.
It came back to me looking like it just left the factory. I've hunted all over the continent from Mexico to the Artic, and never once worried about originality. Oh, BTW, it has been equipped with Briley choke tubes.
It's a work horse, and has never failed me. Never thought about value, other than it's value as a field gun.
As a side note: I once shot a 30 straight with it on box birds, this from low gun.
Still have it, and will never sell it.