Home Forums Birds & Dogs Shotguns Scored a nice old wingmaster

Been looking for a clean old wingmaster to grouse hunt with for quite a while now. I have a 20 O/U and my personal favorite an al48. Both
20s. Which I would have preferred the wingmaster to be. But for some reason I wanted a pump gun to add to the rotation too.


I went to the gun-shop to pick up a scope for a 22magnum.......I didn’t make it to the scope counter when I saw these two old shotguns leaned up in the rack. One was an Ithaca 37 and one a wingmaster. Both in 16s......of course I went to the wingmaster. Gun was in excellent shape for its age, and the action was tighter than 2 coats of paint. 359$ on the sticker price.......I was not leaving without that gun. After all was said and done I walked out with the gun and a box of 7 1/2s for $300 even.

There isn’t much made today for 300$ that I would much look at. The metal to wood fit is very good on this particular one. And the action....slick as a ribbon. It has been well used as it has plenty of marks, bluing is rubbed off on most places as well.....but it has been well taken care of. It will make one fine bird gun.

Oh yea...a quick call to Remington and a serial number lookup makes this one a 1953 model. I was thinking 60s myself, not knowing too much about wingmasters myself. I was a little surprised when she gave me the year. I wonder what stories this gun would have if it could talk?

How many guns today will look this good after 64 years of service I wonder? Far as I can tell this one is just now getting broken in. I had to try it out on something. Pigeons hanging around the barn make nice aerial targets. It has a modified choke that is pretty tight at 21 yards. Probably look into some some spreader loads, if that doesn’t work I’ll have it opened up a bit.