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KY Jon #594896 04/02/21 12:30 PM
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I have a fairly worn 16 gauge Model 12 with a nickle steel barrel and a solid rib that was cut and had a Weaver choke system fitted to it. It came with the whole family of choke tubes in a pair of leather wallets to hold the tubes and the tool to remove the tubes (a short steel rod that fits through the holes in the tube). I insist that it's the ugliest of all of choke systems I've ever personally examined, but it does work. I occasionally shoot skeet with it. Someday, I'll take it turkey hunting.

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Hey Dr. Drewbie-by chance, have you ever read "Hemingway's Guns" by my friends Silvio et al--?? Somehow Hem felt his 1928 era M12 field 12 gauge with 30" solid rib full choked barrel has "worn out" so he ditched it (like he did his wives I guess) in Idaho around 1958 and bought another M12 12 gauge from a hotel bellboy at the Sun Valley Lodge- there are some fotos in that great book showing him carrying it afield- with his pal Bud Purdy wringing the neck on a deceased mallard. They traced his original M12 after his death in 1961, through G&H at Abercombie&Fitch- was sold there-it had been restocked, not sure if it was ever reblued- but after his accolade to that M12 in "True At First Light" in which he finished off a wounded leopard in a mangrove tangle near Kenya with the same "Perfect Repeater" hard to understand how he could let go of it later on at the ebb of his life--you can never wear out a Model 12, a lifetime of shooting, as a 1957 ad showing a hunter with a M12, in waders with a boxcar behind him and a big ass pile of red empty AA hulls--Foxie


"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
KY Jon #594969 04/04/21 01:41 PM
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I have a Winchester Model 12 with factory cutts and also a vent rib. I love that gun and the cutts chokes pattern very evenly. The trouble is that it is as loud as heck.

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I had a uncle who hunted quail over pointers with Cutts choked guns. None of his dogs could hear after about age five. A combination of that Cutts and I suspect untreated ear mites made his dogs deaf years before their time. He must have killed thousands of quail over those dogs. We could hunt in three states within a 20 minute drive and we had places to hunt everywhere in those three states.

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