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March 31, 2025
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Sad to see this go, but I am selling this beauty.
Price is firm because of the rarity and condition this piece is in.
(Original description from when I purchased it in 2021)
A PHENOMENAL, LNIB 98%+ CONDITION!! PRE-64 1952 Winchester Model-12 “DELUXE TRAP” 12 Gauge Pump Action Shotgun! Sporting the HIGHLY DESIRABLE – Round Post AKA “Doughnut Post” VENTED RIBBED 30in Full choke Barrel & OUTSTANDING American Walnut Stock!! The INCREDIBLE DEEP BLUEING on this example IS OUT OF THIS WORLD!!
This masterpiece has the FACTORY CORRECT 30in Full choke marked 2 3/4in ONLY barrel with the proper “WP” proof marks & a 14.25 inch LOP. It has the factory correct recoil pad! .
The “FANCY GRADE” Walnut is out of this world!! Blueing is so deep it took ages to try and get halfway decent pictures as the light just bounces right off!!
Deluxe Trap with the “ROUND POST” Vented ribbed barrel!!
Numerous photos in this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18hAC5eR4Ojzkem5hKb7tVrgcaXE1UWQX?usp=sharing
No original box, sorry
$3000.00
plus $90 shipping and transfer costs at your local FFL
January 20, 2023
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If this Model 12 shotgun was made in 1952 and is in all-original, like new condition, shouldn’t its grip cap be either the earlier hard rubber molded-in logo style or the later plain blue steel cap?
The grip cap on this shotgun appears to be the of the style furnished only on 1964 and later Winchester rifles and shotguns. Perhaps these grip caps were furnished on the “Y” series Model 12 shotguns but those were made after 1964 and none of them were made in 1952.
If I am wrong about this apparent anomaly, perhaps one of our Forum experts on the Model 12 will correct me.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
June 26, 2013
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Zebulon said
If this Model 12 shotgun was made in 1952 and is in all-original, like new condition, shouldn’t its grip cap be either the earlier hard rubber molded-in logo style or the later plain blue steel cap?The grip cap on this shotgun appears to be the of the style furnished only on 1964 and later Winchester rifles and shotguns. Perhaps these grip caps were furnished on the “Y” series Model 12 shotguns but those were made after 1964 and none of them were made in 1952.
If I am wrong about this apparent anomaly, perhaps one of our Forum experts on the Model 12 will correct me.
I noticed that it has a replaced barrel as well–evident by the “circle P” stamp next to the “WP” stamp on the barrel.
Don
April 15, 2005
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To add more information to this topic, there was no such thing as a “Deluxe Trap” grade Model 12. Further, the factory original TRAP (and the SKEET) guns were marked as such on the bottom of the receiver frame.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
April 30, 2023
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Not quite the creampuff after all, I guess. 
January 20, 2023
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Play silly games, win brutal prizes.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
November 7, 2015
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Zebulon said
Play silly games, win brutal prizes.
Hate it when that happens.
Mike
