Long ago I knew a guy who raised channel cats as a side gig. He also owned a gun shop at one time and had a weird Winchester 1200 he’d got as a trade in. It was a prototype or very limited run trap gun with a telescoping buttstock with springs or shocks to reduce felt recoil.
Being a gunsmith and hating the Winchester 1200/1300 operating system he decided it would make a dandy cormorant gun for leaving standing out in the barn next to the catfish ponds. The full choked barrel was certainly effective and many a water turkey went to the big pond in the sky. Until the cows got in the barn and knocked the Winchester over, and proceeded to stomp the fancy stock into a pile of small pieces. I’m sure some collector would shed a tear somewhere if they knew that story.
