The Mod 25 was only made from 1949 till '54.
Ser#'s started at '1' and the last production ser# is reported to have been 87,937 according to the Winchester Polishing Room Records.
That's where the ser#'s of the firearms were imprinted with their #'s
and then recorded.
The M25 at auction is listed with a ser# way too high for a factory gun according to Winchesters records at #1838950F.
That's a Million, 8 Hundred Thousand range...
The suffix (F) doesn't fit with a Model 25 (nor a Model 12 ) from what I can recall of either model.
Mod 25's are decent shotguns.
But they look more like a Model 12 on the outside than they are mechanicaly like a Model 12 on the inside.
Very, very few parts from a Model 12 are used in the Model 25 shotgun.
It's not necessarily a bad thing.
It's just that the Mod25 is not simply a Solid Frame Model 12 as it's often said to be.
Ser#'s started at '1' and the last production ser# is reported to have been 87,937 according to the Winchester Polishing Room Records.
That's where the ser#'s of the firearms were imprinted with their #'s
and then recorded.
The M25 at auction is listed with a ser# way too high for a factory gun according to Winchesters records at #1838950F.
That's a Million, 8 Hundred Thousand range...
The suffix (F) doesn't fit with a Model 25 (nor a Model 12 ) from what I can recall of either model.
Mod 25's are decent shotguns.
But they look more like a Model 12 on the outside than they are mechanicaly like a Model 12 on the inside.
Very, very few parts from a Model 12 are used in the Model 25 shotgun.
It's not necessarily a bad thing.
It's just that the Mod25 is not simply a Solid Frame Model 12 as it's often said to be.
