I wanted a Browning Automatic Light 12, but I knew that wasn't going to happen. Winchester had just come out with the new 1200 pump and that was what my Dad was pushing. Since, at the time I was 13 years old, still pretty much listened to him, and he was buying it for me for Christmas, that is what I got. That was in 1964. It wasn't a bad shotgun. I was proud of it until I showed it to my Granddad and he pointed out to me that it had an aluminum receiver and pressed in checkering. From that point on it was like a hammer, just a tool. I used it for many years and it was always a good shotgun, but I don't wish I still had it...


Harry