Picked up both guns on Saturday. They are not perfect but I’m pretty darn good shape for being as old as they are. Winchester dates to 1923. The Remington to 1936.

Both shoot to POA and throw an impressive pattern at 40 yards with 1 1/8 oz of 7.5. If it quits raining today going to shoot a few clays.

Really nice pair of shotguns. I'm really partial to the model 12s myself.

I took about 10 oz of lead out of the butt stock of the M31 and went 10/10 on clays. It brought back a lot of old memories.

Have an Ithaca 37 featherlight in 12, a couple 16’s and 20 and just bought an Ithaca Turkey Slayer that wasnt labeled a Turkey Slayer on gunbroker. Its the 2000 nwtf gun of the year, still had that on a cap under the grip. Appears to be in decent shape, thought 300 bucks was a pretty decent deal.

No Way!!
Black guns matter!

Old guns are like old cars; they look cooler, but they can't compete with the new high-end models.

For real. I like my old classics but I'm not going for them when the Chicoms invade. Or on most weekends.

I don't know why but smooth bore model 12's throw pumpkin ball slugs pretty good, I agree. Like hit a knot in a tree at 100 yards fairly easily kinda good.

I have a 97 that came down through the family. When gpa went to WW2 he told his younger bro not to fool with it and it went off in the house and hit the wall just by the sink where gma was doing dishes.

I have a mod 12 from that same gpa.

One of those shotguns was being sold at random local farm auction and my gpa bid on it and removed the butt plate and found his old hunting lisc so he knew it was the one he thought it was when he saw it.

My first shotgun was a mod 12 16ga, wrapped up in a weed eater box. I was 15 or 16. I got a flyrod the other year.

I have a 16 & 20 gauge Model 12 Winchesters. The 20 is like new and has not been shot in 50 years. The 16 gauge I traded for 45 yeas ago and never have shot it.

I have always liked blued steel and walnut so much so I went off to gunsmithing school , Trinidad , to learn to build them , Here's some Sharps rifles, I went to work for C Sharps Custom shop starting back in 1981

MTtraps, you still work at C Sharps?

While not classic in the sense of age - these rifles are classic in design

^^ And two of them have very beautiful wood on them. ^^

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No, I am too disabled to be able to make deadlines even just doing the checkering let alone build guns day in and day out, so I quit working for others

White cliffs, that is some serious wood. I would be afraid to hunt with those, but man are they gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

They are big bores - they are my son’s. I cant remember for sure but I think the closest is a .416, the dark wood a .375 and the double is a Heym 500 Nitro Express. The AR snuck in there by accident😎