Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
Model 12 was/is a great shotgun. I've got this model 1897 takedown riot with 20" cylinder bore. I've always been leery of coming home to someone who could get to it so it stays locked up.

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Jimmy?

Can ya play that one like a trombone? I ran all it dry one afternoon doing that one day for my dad. I was clearing some vines off his back fence.

He thought he'd try it. I warned him to get a GOOD hold with his right hand or his thumb was gonna bleed.

It did.

He won't make that mistake again.

Mine looks pretty much the same as yours. I had a "Black Diamond" version, but it was stolen when I was in 'Nam. THe one I have now, I bought in a pawn shop for $100. It had a Cutts on it and was pretty much unused. Somebody had it apart and didn't get it back together right. The pawn shop guy didn't know and thought it was broke. I paid him, and stood in front of him and put it back together, jacked the slide, grinned and walked out. He called me a naughty name on the way out the door.