Winchester Model 1897 Shotgun (photos as promised)

[Flattop5]

As I promised several months ago, I now have photos of my new Winchester Model 1897 12-gauge shotgun (it was on lay-away, hence the lack of prior photos). It has a shortened-by-somebody barrel and an added-by-somebody rubber butt-pad. It's a take-down model, made in 1945. It has some scratches on it and some minor surface rust in a few places, e.g., on the trigger guard.
The serial numbers on the receiver and on the barrel unit are the same. Price was $560.00 (which was a little more than I wanted to spend, but, it has a short barrel, which I really wanted). Condition is, I think, "very good." Bore is shiny.

 

[BillyMagg]

As I promised several months ago, I now have photos of my new Winchester Model 1897 12-gauge shotgun (it was on lay-away, hence the lack of prior photos). It has a shortened-by-somebody barrel and an added-by-somebody rubber butt-pad. It's a take-down model, made in 1945. It has some scratches on it and some minor surface rust in a few places, e.g., on the trigger guard.
The serial numbers on the receiver and on the barrel unit are the same. Price was $560.00 (which was a little more than I wanted to spend, but, it has a short barrel, which I really wanted). Condition is, I think, "very good." Bore is shiny.

Good for you, about 25+ years ago, I had a chance to buy a model 12 Riot Gun, retired by the ISP, and so marked..alas it was $460 which for me was a grand sum. A 4 inch nickeled python in the case was $450, and though I looked at them each time I visited, eventually someone bought each one of them..

to be honest, I was far more impressed with the ISP riot gun, and it was actually the nicer of the two fire-arms... a local gent at a gun show, also had a Winchester Model 54, also marked ISP, which had come out the now famous, (Joliet Jake) prison system..

It was a gorgeous carbine, barrel prolly around 18 inches or so,,, I wish I had bought the Colt because of what it would be worth now, but I would rather have the Model 12 and the Model 54 to "have and to hold!" billy

 

[Pig Hunter]

1982 at Jensen's in Tucson they had several LEO turn in '97s . Marked Yuma PD for $200. I had the money, just didn't want an old pump gun. I had a LOT to learn.

 

[jlrhiner]

^^^Dont we all wish we knew things then that we know now?