Photo is from WWII, and the shotgun is not an 1897( exposed hammer model) but is a model 12. Geez, who the heck posts these photos?
I’ve always wanted one of those. Fix that 16 inch bayonet on that bad boy and go to town!
It’s kinda like my AK underfolder. It’s just so dang iconic and badass looking. Sure it bruises my cheek when I shoot it but that’s the price you pay for coolness.
Then I shoot my SCAR17. Ridiculous accuracy out of a 16 inch barrel. It has a sweet (ugg boot looking) adjustable stock so my stubby armed self can get comfortable. The muzzle brake works well and combined with the action, recoil is crazy low.
Only Americans seemed to have much enthusiasm for shotguns during WWI. H. Hesketh-Prichard admitted - after the war - to being relieved that shotguns never achieved general issue in trench warfare, and he was a Briton who wasn't squeamish about shooting the Hun.
Mr. niteowl77
Another creation of the great John Moses Browning.
I have a ‘97 made in 1903. Heck of a blunderbuss. Have to watch your hand when you rack a new round
John Steinbeck advised LBJ to use 10-gauge automatic shotguns in Vietnam.
Isn’t the Winchester Defender spin off of the ‘97?
Haven’t seen then in the stores for awhile. As Justin Wilson kind of used to say:
When the game warden is around it shoot 3 times.
But when the game warden be not around.
It shoot 8 times.
I own one of these. It was inherited from my dad. He used it while I was growing up for hunting. When I picked it up from the storage cabinet, it was covered by a newspaper, with a picture of Henry Kissinger on the front proudly sporting mutton chop sideburns. It still had a piece of wooden dowel in it to limit the quantity of shells it would hold.