I prefer auto loading shotguns for hunting, and only use 16 ga. I have 5 of them. That said, about 5 years ago I found what looked like an unused or lightly used M 12 16ga,plan barrel full choke. It was $475.00 I went home and pondered it went back and got it. The store thought it had been refinished, but in researching it read that the original bluing will develop a bit of very fine spider webbing or eggshell type (for lack of better description) of condition which this has. The bluing is not missing or compromised in any way, but has that slight crackle like an old oil painting. You can only see it if you look close and hold it just right in good light. The wood still for sure has the original finish.

But the icing on the cake was when I found out it was made in 1914, the first year the 16ga came out and now it is 103 years old and looks pert near new. If you are a 16ga geek like me and it is in high condition consider there will never be any more

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