Bob, your photo comparison is a stark contrast indeed.....
I bet you have got the M20 on the watch/wish list of half this forum's members.
No arguing the elegance of the M20 , sleek indeed, but my old man bought what the Mackey Company had in stock in 1957 in Abilene. He Never gave a thought to anything by Savage/Stevens....
After all Winchester had a reputation for "decent" guns, although he had no use for one, after all , he had the ultimate Bird Gun, a Sweet SixTeen solid rib Auto 5 , discussion closed..
And why? he would ask me some few years later, when the shotgun bug had bitten me hard at about 15 years of age "do you need more than one shotgun?" If you have a good "automatic" you had the best there was
Wow, how much I would have missed if I had accepted that line of thought.
