Don;
When the town of Tombstone AZ was booming they had two newspapers. When they had a little shoot-out down at the OK Corral one paper extoled the virtues of the "Earps", the other that of the "Cowboys". I just think we need opposing views. I have been told that because the 21 doesn't happen to be my favorite gun I'm just jealous of all those who own them because obviously the 21 is "SO GOOD" everybody Has to want one etc, etc. I just wonder how many who extoll this lost money bit are CPA's & have Audited Winchester's Books. Winchester built it, Winchester priced it & Winchester sold it. "IF" they indeed lost money on "Everyone" they sold it was their wish to continue it. If on the other hand they calculated it brought them prestige & enhanced the sale of other guns, it was likely some of their "Cheapest" advertizing. Personally though I simply had never heard of this "Lost Money" bit until they decided to drop it as a production gun & make it a product of the Custom Shop. Even then the statement I saw was it only lost money due to not being assigned it's proper share of overhead. What's the old saying, you can fool all of the people some of the time & some of the people all of the time. Well this just smacks to me as being more Ploy than Fact. But what do I know, I was a machinist, not an accountant.
I love my Lefever shotguns, but I simply don't get as arrogant about them as the average 21 owner. The 21 is a strong shotgun due to being built of alloy steels, rather than case hardened mild carbon steel. There are many guns of superior design to it.
Jimmy; One simply has to wonder just how you have any idea at all as to what shotgun God would prefer or "IF" he even cares for them at all. My main goal in life is to try to lift myself up toward God's level, not pull him down to mine.
