I bought a heavily worn M12 in 20 with the solid rib back a few years ago as a project gun (when old pumps were worth almost nothing). It also had the factory Cutt's compensator, making it very affordable. I'd already cleaned up and cold re-blued several guns before that one so I was willing to take on such a basket-case. As bad as it looked when I got it, it turned out really great when finished. I'd even found a few different Cutt's choke tubes for it (IC, Mod and Full). The rib (w/the compensator) did look really neat but....it added a significant amount of weight. I even thinned the stock down a bit (on the butt-end) to help get the weight down but I never really warmed-up to it and finally sold it (it went really fast, should have asked more for it). The plain field guns are better balanced IMHO.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 11/12/21 11:54 AM.
