We do!
Actually the one we have was my Dad's so we're kind of acttached to it. Don't know what Model it is, but its a plain barreled modified choke, checkered wood. He use it for years as a bird gun and deer hunting in upstate NY. No rifles where we lived.

 

got some pics of it?

 

Bob,
My first shotgun was a double barrel 20 gauge. Santa brought it to me. I was 12.

I traded that gun in for a Winchester Model 50 a few years later. I still have it. I bet it's has ~1000 rounds thru it. It's seen bad weather. It's been dropped in the mud. It has patina. I don't remember it ever misfiring or jamming.

 

truly an old workhorse pre 64 gun!

 

Bob,
I know this is a shotgun thread.

I guess that it was about the time that I bought my Winchester Model 94 lever rifles as a primary hunting (deer in GA) weapon and then when I got interested in the old design.

I know the modern stuff is better. I still prefer the older design.

Sorry, but to me the Winchester Model of 1894 is good. And like the Winchester 50; this category is currently priced well below the replacement market.

I am proud to have two 94's and a 50.

 

heres my pretty skeet upgrade.

 

heres a 12ga with very nice stock work.....

 

Nice! Didn't know i wanted one till now....

 

for almost 60 years old, they are solid guns.

 

My dad gave me his way back when. When I was a lad back in 1959 or 1960 I used to accompany him hunting. I still have it and use it at my clubs Turkey Shoots. It's helped me bring home the turkey more than once. Way too heavy to lug around in the field, (all those darn steel parts!). It's one well made shotgun, They don't ( and can't afford) to make them like that anymore!

 

its one of those guns that doesnt need to be broken in to work. lol.

 

heres one of my loaner guns being used by one of my shooters. he left his chokes at home for his o&u. (one of my pet peeves about a screw in's value)

btw, he came in 1st place with this one.

 

Bobski, the Winchester mod. 50 was it made before the Winchester sx1.

 

yes. the 50 was made from 54 to 60.
the sxm1 was made from 74 to 81.

 

here are john olins model 50's. ones a 12 and the other is a pigeon 20ga. note the e' grade stocks. he liked those styles.

 

Very nice.

 

Too bad they never made the M50 in the correct gauge. I would have loved to have one!

 

they did. but it never made it past experimental.

 

Same with the Browning Superposed - they made thousands of them, but only one in the proper gauge. It is in the Herstal museum in Belgium.
I do admit to being a bit prejudiced in this respect...

 

you mentioned looking at 50's closer. did that ever happen?

 

I'll go first.

The Winchester Model 50 in 12 gauge is one of the best shotguns ever made.

It does it's job with no complaints and ignores the pundits that may think that they could have drastically changed history.

I went to a bird hunt a few weeks ago in south Georgia. There were a lot of fancy upscale $5000 Italian shotguns.

The Winchester Model 50 did twice as well as the expensive shotguns. We would have probably had to go eat at the local McDonalds except for the Winchester Model 50s.

 

vintage...see post 4. you gettin old? :>

 

Yes, I am getting old. There is no need to make fun of us older folks.

At any competitive event, you should give us old guys a two-target handicap.

 

i'll give you more than that.... i'll squad you with beginners.
you joining us oct? loflyer made it from ga and won the match!

 

Own one too. displayed it on this site some time ago Nice useable shotgun, its a pre-64 FW and sports a FC 30"bbl' Clean like new. No scratches etc..
tempted to have bbl cut to 26 or 28 and chokes IC for grouse or skeet. built like a rock. nothing cheap about it. My only wish is that it was a sixteen instead of twelve, I do not believe they made them in sixteen.

No did not cut bbl !! never. not a good idea !

 

The fw I talked about in my previous post.

 

12 and 20 only. they had some experimental ones in 410.