I have both a Model 97 and a couple of Model 12s in 16 gauge, plus the Browning copy of the Model 12 in 28 gauge. None have ever bobbled or hiccuped, although one of the 16s is so worn that I cannot take it apart anymore without having to monkey with the innards to get it back together. Local gunsmith told me $100 to fix it, but it has no finish to speak of and a Weaver choke system (the system that made the Cutts look attractive), so I just carry it in a full length case. The 28 was opened to IC by a prior owner for quail hunting and is a skeet grinding machine. My brother hunts deer in SE PA with a Model 97 he put a set of iron sights on. Someone had cut the barrel to 23 inches. It will put five cheap Foster style slugs into a teacup at 75 yards.
They are both good guns.
