Didn't Dave Carlson, Mgr. of the WRA Custom Shop, receive a order from John Olin to built a .410 M21- after seeing one "customized" M21 into that midget caliber, assembled by Ernie Simmons, of Olathe, KS.
The M42, some refer to it as the "Baby Model 12", is correct to scale for its smallish gauge, but most .410 bore double guns built on 20 gauge frames, look almost freakish, to my eyes anyway. Like the late Nash Buckingham, I view the sub-bore .410 as a great crippler of game birds- with the caveat that two of Ernest Hemingway's sons, Patrick and Gregory, ran high scores on live pigeons at the Club in Cuba, with .410 shotguns-against grown men using 12 gauge shotguns.
I have been collecting and shooting Model 12's for 40 plus years, and have turned down any and all offers on Model 42's--Not my "cup of tea" I guess.
