I've met up with his son once or twice...I think he still lives here in Houston.

Proponents of the M21 like to point out that it is the most 'sturdy' made of all the American doubles. It better be - it was developed late in the game and had the shoulders of all the other guns to stand on. Plus all the advances on manufacturing and metallurgy.


IMO the field grade guns are solid guns, the custom (engraved) guns are usually pretty outlandish and in the words of one well known gun writer, circus-like. Winchester never should have given carte blanche in the ordering of decoration.