Winchester did- they refused to give John M. Browning a royalty on every A-5 produced, so Browning tried Remington- UMC. The CEO- Marcellus Hartley Dodge died of a heart attack, before the deal was done, so Browning hiked over the pond to FN in Liege- and the rest is history. Winchester lost out on the auto-loading shotgun market big-time. If Mr. Bennett had agreed to John Brownings terms, WRA would have dominated the US repeating shotgun market.

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..