Yesirre troops- one of the biggest gun writer mistakes was claiming that the great Winchester Model 1912 (from 1912 to aprox 1919) was the "predecessor" to the Model 12, much in the same manner as the fact that the Winchester M54 was, indeed, the predecessor to the great M70 CF rifle. Another fubar is F*S shotgun writer Phil Bourjaily- best duck guns article- claiming that Thomas Crossley Johnson "revised and re-vamped the Browning M1893 and M1897 into the hammerless Model 12- BS- Johnson started from scratch on that "Perfect Repeater", the only thing he "borrowed from Johm Moses Browning's design was the 90% interrupted thread barrel/receiver take-down design-BS is out there, and not just from the politicos--
