Winchester Model 12 1912 Pump Action 12 Bore/gauge

Winchester model 12 shotgun.

Desirable Takedown version with a 24 inch barrel.this particular one was built in 1940 at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company factory located in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. This is available on a section 2 shotgun certificate (2+1 capacity)

The Winchester Model 1897, a brainchild of John Moses Browning, had already established itself as a mainstay in the pump-action shotgun world by the dawn of the 20th century. But even the best designs need refinement, and Winchester wanted to build a hammerless successor that was sleeker, more refined, and more reliable.Enter T.C. Johnson, a prominent engineer at Winchester. Johnson took the basic mechanics of Browning’s exposed-hammer Model 1897 and reimagined them into a fully enclosed, hammerless design. The result was the Model 1912, later called simply the Model 12—a shotgun that would remain in production for an astonishing 70-plus years.

Widely adopted by the U.S. Armed Forces, it served as a formidable combat and riot shotgun in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

Unlike most modern pump-action shotguns, it lacks a trigger disconnector. This allowed users to hold the trigger down and fire subsequent shots as fast as they could cycle the slide.

The Model 12 was discontinued in May 1964 primarily due to high manufacturing costs (which required extensive hand-fitting and machined steel parts) and increased competition from cheaper, mass-produced stamped designs like the Remington 870.

Collection preferred. Midlands ST19

Thanks Daniel