1200 Winchester??

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Any one wish to opine?
I have never owned one and have a chance to get one tonight.
Supposed to be in great shape and guy wants to trade some race car parts.
 
You must remember the Winchester 1200, 1400 series was an engineering exercise on how to build and market a shotgun as cheaply as possible.
 
Decent shotguns, but of course the 1200 suffers greatly when compared to it's predeccessor, the Model 12. The Model 12 just became too expensive to produce and, as has been noted, the 1200 was Winchester's attempt to build a shotgun that could compete in the mass-production marketplace that the company found itself in. Not a 'great' gun...like it's competitor, the Remington 870...in the opinion of most shotgunners. But it's a decent gun and many have been in service for 40+ years now and still going strong. The Sears version, the Model 200, is also common.
 
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I have 1200 Trap model and have put well over a thousand rounds through it w/no problems.
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Not trying to be rude, but 1,000 rounds through a trap gun is a typical weekend or two........well made trap guns typically go through 500,000 - 1,000,000 rounds over their lifetime

Thanks Brent - I did the advanced and copied the http addy for the listing - guess it doesn't work well here...........
 
I owned one a while back and have worked on a few. Never saw one broke and was amazed at how much gunk could accumulate in the gizzards of the 1200 and the dang things still shot.

The biggest problem is not cleaning and neglect,

I have a semi 1400 Mk.II and love the gun. It's not the 1200 I know but it shares a lot of parts with the 1200. Stamped steel instead of machined parts.

They are not as stoutly constructed as a Remington or a Mossberg but they do work and can be found for reasonable prices.

IMHO they are serviceable guns for average users and if cared for will last.
 
Model 1200

I had a Sears Model 200, Ted Williams model 200 maybe...which was same as Winchester 1200.

Rotating Bolt shotgun and it worked as advertised. never had any grief.

Had a generic variable choke on barrel, which worked on on clay birds and real ones, too.

I put a Winchester 1200 smoothbore slug barrel on it, with iron sights.

Adjusted it and last 3 times I shot at targets, I hit 3 consecutive soup cans off a fence post at 60 yards. Foster type slugs.

I put a long eye relief scope on it and used it on deer....2 shots two kills. Both Heart shots, one on a dead run.

In my world, the 1200 was a good if not great gun.
 
>>I had a Sears Model 200, Ted Williams model 200<<

Recently picked one up that looks virtually unfired. For cheap money, you can't go wrong. :)

===RUT== (K1HS)
 
The rotary bolt system is a very strong system as compared to the tipping/lockng bolt system found in the model 12.

The rest of the gun, the aluminum receiver , and stamped parts are what the fans of the model 12 could not buy into after the introduction of the 1200 in 1964. Rightly so!!

I have had, held in in my grubby paws, a few model 12's and and they are some of the finest examples of American manufacturing that now suffers from cost cutting techniques in order to produce guns at a price we can afford.

I shudder to think what a Model 12 would cost to make today.:eek:
 
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