Winchester Model 12, 20g, High-Grade Skeet

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Cool, nice find.

Some of my early skeet shooting was with a 20 ga Winchester Model 12 that had been my mother's. Excellent shooter but nothing special. I bring it out periodically for nostalgia.

In the 1930's through the 1940's, pump shotguns were the guns to shoot in skeet. As semi-autos got more reliable and over/unders got more available, pump shotguns were replaced as the skeet gun to compete with.
 
Have a good friend that has the entire set of WS1 m12s including 16 & 28 ga.
I have a 1921 nickle steel tour grade TRAP with milled and pinned duck bill rib, best pump ever made.
 
Howdy

It's not a Skeet gun, but this 12 gauge Model 12 is my favorite Trap gun. Made in 1948, it is two years older than me. Full choke, 30" barrel. It has an adjustable butt pad on it now since this photo was taken.

I only use it for singles trap, have never tried doubles with it. Although I know these guns were used for doubles for many years, it would take a while for me to get used to working the action between shots without bobbling the gun so much that I lost my sight picture.

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I have a Tour Grade very similar to yours but Nickle Steel circa 1921
 
Driftwood Johnson said:
Howdy

It's not a Skeet gun, but this 12 gauge Model 12 is my favorite Trap gun. Made in 1948, it is two years older than me. Full choke, 30" barrel. It has an adjustable butt pad on it now since this photo was taken.

I only use it for singles trap, have never tried doubles with it. Although I know these guns were used for doubles for many years, it would take a while for me to get used to working the action between shots without bobbling the gun so much that I lost my sight picture.

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What an excellent Trap gun! You can master doubles in no time with that gun.
 
A true beauty! :thumbup:

My Model 12 is a well-used 16 ga hunting version. I can imagine the bluing looked like that once many, many decades ago, but the wood never did. :)

Have fun breaking that amazing find in.

Stay safe.
 
Your model 12 is beautiful Michael! I know this is an old thread but here’s mine. My dad gave it to me when I was 14. I just turned 65 yesterday. This gun fit me so well that it became my can’t miss gun, not saying I never did though:) I hunted everything with it till steel shot became the law of the land for water fowl and it got put in the safe. I bought a used 870 12 ga magnum from a buddy and hunted many years with it and broke a lot of clays on the skeet field as well until I mostly quit hunting game that required a shotgun for many years. I recently retired and have been hunting some late season grouse and have been really enjoying getting out again. I’ve been using a 20 ga 870 but thought I’d get the old girl in the woods again if only for nostalgia sake. The old Winchester is a1947 vintage. I had the rib put on and got it re blued probably 40 years ago. Also replaced the corncob with a more stylish fore end at some point as well. It’s my most prized possession as far as guns go. 06E9EE98-9242-418C-A7BA-80BF29019D02.jpeg 06E9EE98-9242-418C-A7BA-80BF29019D02.jpeg 06E9EE98-9242-418C-A7BA-80BF29019D02.jpeg
 
...have never tried doubles with it. Although I know these guns were used for doubles for many years,
it would take a while for me to get used to working the action between shots without bobbling the gun ,
so much that I lost my sight picture.
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Dad would run 100 straight on a (semi) regular basis with his father's 1924 Model-12, during the mid`50's as part of the USAF Western Air Defense League Team.
Cycling the action is automatic on recoil.
Sight picture never changes...

I began shooting skeet with it in the early 70's.
My son will get it.
As will his....

You can tell an old Skeet shooter
"Pull"
"Mark"
"Birds"
 
I'd cut the barrel down to 18.5" with a hacksaw and add a tactical light and receiver mounted estac side saddle if it were mine. Would make a fine little house gun loaded with buckshot.
 
My dad gave me this nib unfired Y model 12 trap for my bday.
It remained unfired until #3 son took it for a test-run for his high school trap team gun.


Driftwood Johnson said:
Howdy

It's not a Skeet gun, but this 12 gauge Model 12 is my favorite Trap gun. Made in 1948, it is two years older than me. Full choke, 30" barrel. It has an adjustable butt pad on it now since this photo was taken.

I only use it for singles trap, have never tried doubles with it. Although I know these guns were used for doubles for many years, it would take a while for me to get used to working the action between shots without bobbling the gun so much that I lost my sight picture.

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My father tells the story of shooting on a squad with a Winchester "Pro" at the Grand American in Findlay, Ohio. There were a few spectators watching the first trap of doubles. The "PRO" was shooting winchesters new SUPER X model. He ran the first trap with the SUPER X, and they moved on down the line, and the spectators wandered off. He then retrieved his model 12 and finished the doubles race with it saying "yeah, im not crazy about that thing, but they want me to shoot it.
 

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