The length of pull if fantastic with the factory stock, the gun is light in weight, and the gun lives up to the “Speed Pump” name. In my opinion, my Model 1300 handles well. Yup, that’s an actual screen capture from Winchester website back in 2005. I personally have an 8 Shot Speed Pump Defender variant (SKU number 512104308). Winchester made a ton of different variants of the Model 1300 from fancy Marine Coated guns for boats to basic hunting guns and capable defensive police shotguns. While cycling forward a Model 1300 needs 7lbs of force, while a Mossberg needs 9lbs and a Remington needs 6lbs. The shotgun unlock itself.Ī Mossberg needs 6lbs and a Remington requires 2lbsof force to begin moving the slide rearward. You can actually see this when you hold up a empty unloaded Model 1300 muzzle up.
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According to the manual after the shotgun is fired, the locking lugs of the rotary bolt begin disengaging from the barrel extension and the recoil forces assist the slide in moving rearward. Winchester always claimed that the 1300, which they nicknamed the “Speed Pump” was a faster design than what Remington and Mossberg offered in their designs, and I can actually agree. One of the biggest differences you might ask? The chamber was lengthened to accommodate 3″ shells.
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Repeating Arms Company to continue to produce firearms under license at the New Haven Plant and during this time. With the new ownership and reorganization FN allowed U.S.
Repeating Arms itself went bankrupt and it was acquired by a French holding company who then sold to Belgian gun company Fabrique Nationale d’Herstal (parent company of FN and Browning Arms Company). The Winchester ammunition side of the business was retained by Olin. Repeating Arms Company, and granted a license to make Winchester arms. On December 1980, the New Haven plant was sold to its employees, incorporated as the U.S.
The Model 1200 was popular as a “2nd Place” shotgun and was known for it’s quality and lightweight handling due to its aluminium receiver.īut by 1979-1980, labor costs continued to rise and there was a prolonged strike that ultimately convinced Olin that firearms could no longer be produced profitably in New Haven, Connecticut. While not achieving the sales figures of the Remington Model 870. The Model 1200 was doing well and became popular as a field and police shotgun.
One of the new designs to replace the classic Model 12 was the Model 1200 introduced in 1965. The immediate reaction of the shooting press and public was overwhelmingly negative: the popular verdict was that Winchester had sacrificed quality to the “cheapness experts,” and Winchester was no longer considered to be a prestige brand, causing a marked loss of market share.īut all was not lost in 1964. The result was a new line of guns which replaced most of the older products in 1964. Janson had a new Winchester design group be formed to to advance the use of “modern” engineering design methods and manufacturing principles in gun design. Winchester could no longer compete in price with Remington’s cast-and-stamped Model 870.
Hunting went from a necessity to sport and the company’s flagship, the Model 12 was selling like hotcakes.Įxcept Remington entered the field with the incredible Model 870 Shotgun and undercutted the Winchester in production costs while still maintaining quality.īy the 1960s, with the rising cost of skilled labor was making it increasingly unprofitable to produce Winchester’s classic designs, as they required considerable hand-work to finish involving machined forgings. American Suburbia was growing and men and boys now had leisure time. In the the 1950s, Winchester was doing fairly well with the post war economic boom. The Model 1300 Shotgun, the final Winchester shotgun from the fabled gun valley of Connecticut.
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