My grandfather’s Winchester Model 12 is the only possession of his I have. It was passed down to me after his firstborn son (my uncle) died several years ago. Most hunters and shooters hold on ...

I first saw my Winchester Model 12 Featherweight in the display window of Baker’s Hardware Store in early November of 1961. I was 15 years old, and I had been studying the Model 12 in the big ...

The .410 bore exerts much less recoil compared to 12- and 20-ga., and the pump-action of the Winchester design was fast, making the Model 42 a shotgun that was easy to keep on target and quick to ...

When I started hunting birds with my dad when I was 12 years old, he hunted with a Winchester Model 12 shotgun. No matter where we hunted, or what we were hunting, Dad used the beautiful shotgun ...

“In 1966 or ’67, when I was finally 12 years old, I snuck away with a friend so we could get our NRA cards, which is the equivalent of a HuntSAFE hunter-safety card these days and meant, at ...

Conventional wisdom in the 1890s was that the pump or slide-action shotgun was merely an interim solution, a bridge between double barrels and self-loading or automatic shotguns.

The Model 12, known as "The Perfect Repeater," set the standard for slide-action shotguns during its production run from 1912-64. Winchester sold more than 2 million, including 100,000 special ...

Most were marketed as the Browning Model 42, but around 850 were stamped Winchester. The Craftsmanship of the Model 42 To takedown the M42, you must slide the small metal rod at the tip of the ...