If you'll check the Madis book- the extra charge for bending the tang to alter the stock dims back in 1916 was $3.00- my guess- instead of the smaller "perch-bellied" stock with the modified POW grip- perhaps it was retro-fitted with a post 1935 fluted comb style field grade buttstock and the tang angle altered-- And if it is marked Winchester Model 19192- it is a Model 12- and anyone who tries to tell you anything contrary is full of Schiese- all WRA did in 1919 was drop the 19 from the Model 1912 roll stamping, thus Model 12- same gun- not called the "Perfect Repeater" for nothing either- I have 7- all made prior to 1948, 5 of them made before 1940-- As Dave Petzal of Feel & Scream magazine once wrote in Sporting Classics in 1985- "The Model 12 points like the Finger of Doom"--and he was/is 100% right about that-
