King, I spoke of my gun in particular. The guns can vary a lot in weight and weight distribution that determines handling characteristics.
Some think O'Connor was a virtual mouthpiece for Winchester, so it's odd to see his comments used to damn with faint praise. As I said, I never read him, but long as we're quoting him, I quickly found this about his 20 ga.:
"The little gun is the finest all-around shotgun I've ever owned, and I use it on everything from quail to ducks about three fourths of the time...." It clearly wasn't only about scarcity or strength for him.
Winchester stopped making the 21 as a "production" gun because the expense of manufacture was too high. Their production operation was never high volume, only made some 34,000 total, which I think includes the custom shop guns.
Jay
Last edited by Gunflint Charlie; 11/20/12 03:45 PM.
