winchester model 50

Milanczar said:
The Win 50 is a great shotgun. Sad about the Cutts. These are often seen on Browning Twelvettes and Twentyweights with a similar negative effect on value.

So just shoot it and enjoy it!! :)
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Yes and no when talking vintage winchesters
Rule of thumb has always been which follows blue book
Add 25 percent for original factory installed Cutts guns, deduct 50 percent for non-original smith added Cutts guns.
Guns that left the factory with a Cutts installed will have NO choke markings on the barrel. If it says full or modified or even WS-1 and has a Cutts,it was put on AFTER it left the Winchester factory. Or as winchester used to say back in the day factory ones don't get blown off :)
Cheers
 
3macs1 said:
Yes and no when talking vintage winchesters
Rule of thumb has always been which follows blue book
Add 25 percent for original factory installed Cutts guns, deduct 50 percent for non-original smith added Cutts guns.
Guns that left the factory with a Cutts installed will have NO choke markings on the barrel. If it says full or modified or even WS-1 and has a Cutts,it was put on AFTER it left the Winchester factory. Or as winchester used to say back in the day factory ones don't get blown off :)
Cheers
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i just looked and it doesn't have any markings about a choke. so guess it would be original? either way i have another barrel on the way for it at a supposably 95%. i can't find any chokes for the cutts and the spreader choke is not really useful for me. i paid $300 for it and it seemed like a good price too me being a semi auto, new barrel $160. only thing is missing is the little keeper pin that goes in the buffer tube plug. i just have a piece of wire in there for now until i can somehow find one or figure out something better
 
its odd that its not worth much though. looks like there was a lot of machining to make the receiver. what would it fetch in price if the model 50 was introduced today? probably north of 800$ id guess
 
James1873 said:
i just looked and it doesn't have any markings about a choke. so guess it would be original? either way i have another barrel on the way for it at a supposably 95%. i can't find any chokes for the cutts and the spreader choke is not really useful for me. i paid $300 for it and it seemed like a good price too me being a semi auto, new barrel $160. only thing is missing is the little keeper pin that goes in the buffer tube plug. i just have a piece of wire in there for now until i can somehow find one or figure out something better
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You did Ok on price. They're great guns, really fun to shoot and useful.

James1873 said:
its odd that its not worth much though. looks like there was a lot of machining to make the receiver. what would it fetch in price if the model 50 was introduced today? probably north of 800$ id guess
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With all the machining and work that goes into these, if they were introduced today, I would expect they would be well north of $1000.
 
James1873 said:
i just looked and it doesn't have any markings about a choke. so guess it would be original? either way i have another barrel on the way for it at a supposably 95%. i can't find any chokes for the cutts and the spreader choke is not really useful for me. i paid $300 for it and it seemed like a good price too me being a semi auto, new barrel $160. only thing is missing is the little keeper pin that goes in the buffer tube plug. i just have a piece of wire in there for now until i can somehow find one or figure out something better
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I would say factory installed.If you want cutts run a WTB listing on the EE and some will show up since they are still out there in people's stashes and reasonably priced when you do locate some
Cheers
 
James1873 said:
its odd that its not worth much though. looks like there was a lot of machining to make the receiver. what would it fetch in price if the model 50 was introduced today? probably north of 800$ id guess
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It was just one of those guns that didnot have a following even 50 years ago and honestly one of the few winchester shotguns I didnot stash back in the day for that reason
I kept model 21,12's superx-1 etc but even then one could see they were never going to be worth any money dispite the fact they were well made and quality so why keep one.
Seems today looking at what they do sell for and how hard of a sell they are that was the right decision for me

There is nothing wrong with a model 50 other than don't pay a lot of money for one thinking it's value will increase over time.
Cheers
 
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