winchester 1200 12 ga.

arkbacks

May 01, 2015 05:56

I was given a Winchester 1200 shotgun from a lady for helping her, I believe it was her husbands from Vietnam. The serial number is 130761. I looked on the Winchester website and it gave me the info that the 1200's began with the 100,000 serial in 1964. Can anyone help me narrow down a year this was made? I will be proud to own this gun from a fellow soldier.

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  rufe-snow

  May 01, 2015 07:28

  From the Winchester web site.
  
  
  
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  PRODUCTION ON THE MODEL 1200 ACTUALLY STARTED IN 1964 WITH SERlAL NUMBER
  100,000. HOWEVER THOSE RECORDS ARE NO LONGER AVAlLABLE."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a photo of a Viet Nam era Winchester 1200 trench gun. They are very uncommon/valuable. Few were sold on the commercial market. If yours looks like this? Likely quite valuable, to a collector.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  charliemeyer007

  May 01, 2015 08:07

  I have a friend who was SF Green Beret over there for 2.5 tours. When he came home on leave the first time he bought an 1100 Remington to take back. He taught me to run my H&R Topper much like a M79 grenade launcher.
  
  Ammo dump guard duty for me in the mid 70's at Ft. Gordon was with an 870 Remington. One of the few places we were given live ammo to carry on duty.

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