I'm no fan of modified Winchesters (unless it's a basket case project, & even then I'd have my limits). Mr. Fox, what you're seeing is a much younger crowd coming-on that doesn't understand the history of the M12 (a high percentage of the millennials I interact with are almost abjectly....historically illiterate), is unlikely to ever be any form of a collector of such things, and is merely singing the eternal song of the "gun-writer", which is to shill for the goods and services of their advertisers.