Winchester Model 97. Slam fire.

[CrazyDave]

You guessed it, one followed me home.  This thing is FUN.   3 boxes of shells got emptied before I could stop.  It ran perfect even being over 100 years old.  Beautiful wood, 30" full choke barrel.  I love my Benelli's, but this thing has a soul and I suspect one could empty it just as fast.  Amazing.  If your a gun guy that likes all guns for whatever reason, and never shot a slam fired shotgun, get one!  You'll be smiling ear to ear, I promise.   

Lets talk slam fire shotgun! 

For those of you who are like "WTH is that".....a slam fire shotgun is just a pump that will fire with no trigger reset.   You hold the trigger back, rack the slide, and it goes bang, scarily fast and stupidly fun.

 

[motorcyclist]

Would love to have one. Big time shotgun fan. If you haven't shot sporting clays, don't! Very addictive! I now have a Italian semi-auto habit.

[M1A4ME]

Another John Browning design.

Same as the M37 Ithaca.  The gun looks different but both are John Browning designs and both will slam fire.

The M12 Winchester will, too, but Mr. Browning didn't design that one.

My complaint about the M97 isn't that it's heavy.  It's that nothing that heavy should kick that hard.

Now take that long barreled full choke antique to the woods and kill some squirrels or turkeys.

[CrazyDave]

Another John Browning design.

Same as the M37 Ithaca.  The gun looks different but both are John Browning designs and both will slam fire.

The M12 Winchester will, too, but Mr. Browning didn't design that one.

My complaint about the M97 isn't that it's heavy.  It's that nothing that heavy should kick that hard.

Now take that long barreled full choke antique to the woods and kill some squirrels or turkeys.

 The recoil makes the fun somehow.  I don't hunt anymore.  Unique firearms amuse me and I am no expert.   I am just a simple guy  that thought someone else might be as ignorant as me and want some fun.  Best wishes.

[eastman]

Sounds like a fun time. I enjoy harassing clay pigeons with my 60 year old Auto-5, so I also enjoy the classics.

I don't have a Win97 ...

yet. 

[CrazyDave]

Sounds like a fun time. I enjoy harassing clay pigeons with my 60 year old Auto-5, so I also enjoy the classics.

I don't have a Win97 ...

yet. 

I would pass this along.  I like buying used guns to enjoy, experience, check out, and not lose (too much) money on, while having fun.  Your probably smarter than me.  I was leaking before I left the LGS shop with it.  After 100 rounds my shoulder is still bruised and my hand has a few scrapes still, but it's fun. It patterns great if you don't mind a sore shoulder and a scraped up hand. 

[M1A4ME]

A few years back I saw a video of a guy using a M37 Ithaca at a shooting match (don't remember what class/name/etc.)  He was using the slam fire feature and he was quick.  He'd practiced enough to be able to have the muzzle pointing in the right direction when the slide hit the end of forward movement while holding the trigger down.  He was just cleaning the targets off one after another.  Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom (5 shot model).

When John Browning was designing/building guns there was no aluminum/plastic.  It was all forged steel and walnut.  The M37 used to be (and may still be) the lightest forged steel 12 ga. ever made.