Featured Gun – Winchester Model 21 For Sale

January 11, 2019 | Category: Featured Gun

What Makes The Winchester Model 21 Special?

The shotgun’s initial production run from 1931 through 1960 yielded approximately 30,000 guns. Winchester Repeating Arms Company ceased the main production line of this shotgun in 1960 and the Model 21 was sourced to the Winchester Custom Shop until the gun’s retirement in 1991. New Winchester Model 21 production continues under license to Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company.

Why Do You Need THIS Gun?

The gun is sporting beautiful 30-inch barrels and is choked as FULL and MOD. The lock up is tight, and the bores are mint. Underside of the receiver has some blue loss, but it is a really nice gun all around. LOP of the stock is 13.75 to the wood.


Winchester Model 21 for sale

Purchase this Winchester Model 21

Every Gun Tells A Story. Here’s Winchester Model 21’s Story.

The shotgun’s initial production run from 1931 through 1960 yielded approximately 30,000 guns. Winchester Repeating Arms Company ceased the main production line of this shotgun in 1960 and the Model 21 was sourced to the Winchester Custom Shop until the gun’s retirement in 1991. Very limited production continues under license to Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously owned a shot a Winchester Model 21, his favorite gun. His particular Model 21 had a pheasant on one side and a grouse on the other, both inlaid in gold. The trigger guard had the initials DDE, Dwight David Eisenhower, inlaid in gold. On the bottom of the receiver lies five gold stars signifying Eisenhower’s rank as general of the U.S. Army.

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Original Designer: T. C. Johnson, Edwin Pugsley, George Lewis, Frank Burton, and Louis Stiennon all contributed to development of the Winchester Model 21.
Catalyst for Manufacture: The Winchester Model 21 was Winchester’s answer to Parker and Fox’s high-end side by side shotguns.
Maker: Winchester
Model: Model 21
S/N: 17645
Special Characteristics:

  1. 30-inch barrels
  2. Choked as FULL and MOD
  3. Tight lock up
  4. Stock LOP is 13.75 to the wood
  5. Many consider this a near custom-made shotgun
  6. Frame machined from a heat-treated cro-moly steel forging
  7. Chopper-lump-type barrels made from heat-treated chrome molybdenum alloy steel