Lord, please forgive me (concerning the Model 12)

[Stan Rosen]

My two favorite shotguns are the Ithaca 37, and the Winchester Model 12, with my Remington 31s coming in a very close second. I could never warm up to the 870, much to the disappointment of my buddies who wouldn't shoot anything but 870s.

 

[entropy]

Your 3 great choices overcome the lack of love for the 870. And I guess owning a Rem. 31 is next on my list.

 

[Stan Rosen]

Your 3 great choices overcome the lack of love for the 870. And I guess owning a Rem. 31 is next on my list.

If you have any interest in a 31 that functions flawlessly, but could use some cosmetic help, shoot me a message.

 

[entropy]

It might be a few months, but I just might do that.

 

[9x56MS]

The 1200 should have been hung around the neck of the engineers who designed it while they were bound and thrown in a duck swamp used only by owners of original .model 12's happily shooting ducks over their cursed heads. I am still looking for my first model 12 in 16 gauge. I grew up shooting a 20 gauge Ithica deerslayer with as we called it a rat tail forearm aka corn cob Forearm. I miss that gun. It probably killed more grouse and woodcock than deer. Blasphemers indeed.

 

[Boattale]

I had one. I had nothing but problems with FTF and FTE. Ok...might have just had a M 12 with "issues". I currently have one now that got worked over by a gunsmith. No cycling problems but I just can't warm up to the corncob forend and don't like the sighting plane. I know it's supposed to be the "perfect repeater", forever and ever, amen. My apologies to Thomas Crosley Johnson. You created a wonderful shotgun, just not my shotgun. I feel far more comfortable with a Mossberg 500, Maverick 88, or Remington 870 than with any Model 12 I have ever handled. And I grew up with a Winchester 1200 and a Springfield 67C.Am I being a shotgun heathen or have some kind of "condition"? LOL

I had another brand/model that people swear by. A Remington Model 31 that was nothing but problems from the day I picked it up until the day it was traded in on an 870 wingmaster. So don't apologize to the likes of me, a fellow heathen.