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Dragoness Eclectic ([personal profile] dragoness_e) wrote2008-02-29 11:37 am

Winchester Gun Museum - Part 4: Winchester Shotguns

Winchester Gun Museum - Part 1: The Evolution of Firearms
Winchester Gun Museum - Part 2: The Winchester Repeating Rifle
Winchester Gun Museum - Part 3: More Winchester Rifles

This chapter, Winchester's shotguns. A short article of only one picture.


Winchester Shotguns


Top to bottom, the placards say:

1887 12 gauge standard
Manufactured: 1887 - 1898. Production: 64,855. Black powder.

1893 12 gauge field grade
Manufactured: 1893 - 1899. Production: 34,050. Black powder.

1897 12 gauge field takedown
Manufactured: 1897 - 1958. Production: 1,028,700

1897 12 gauge trench gun
Manufactured: 1914 - 1945. Production: 19,196. U.S. military with Winchester bayonet.

1897 12 gauge riot
Manufactured: 1897 - 1958. Production: unknown

1901 10 gauge plain finish
Manufactured: 1901 - 1920. Production: 13,500

1911 12 gauge standard grade
(rest of placard obscured)

To the right:
Winchester Model 1898 10 gauge breech loading cannon
1903 - 1958



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