Herb Orre worked for Winchester in the 1930's and is credited with putting the first 21 together. He did not design it as some will have you believe. Many trap and pidgeon shooters had their guns set up to shoot the left barrel first claiming they could stay in the gun better. If you are going to shoot trap with it by all means get the one with the higher stock. I got my first yard in trap shooting with a 30" Model 21. You can do no better.
AWC
Huum- I know my favorite actor of the era of these M21's , Humphrey Bogart- shot skeet with a Grade 1 LC Smith 20 gauge- never knew Walter Pidgeon was into the shooting sports (pidgeon shooters- aka- "Team Walter" I should guess. Saw a field grade M12 once years ago at a local gun show- restock with an Anton stock, Simmons rib added- and someone had tried to engrave both the bird and the wording- to pass it off as a Pigeon Grade- and they made the same error you did- they actually spelled it with the added "d"-- comical. I have a true M12 Pigeon grade trap gun, made in 1948- the older rib that was first offered about 1919- 30" barrel- it has had well over 350,000 shells through it- never a broken part-A testimony to how durable a M12 is!!
