Woobie

400 or so would be my guess. It doesn't have the vented rib and removable chokes. Standard non checkering stock. Great shotgun none the less.
 
That was sold as a duck gun way back when - when lead shot was still OK for waterfowling. It could still serve the same purpose by getting the choke reamed out, or replacing the barrel with a newer Remchoke barrel.
 
cosmic said:
That was sold as a duck gun way back when - when lead shot was still OK for waterfowling. It could still serve the same purpose by getting the choke reamed out, or replacing the barrel with a newer Remchoke barrel.
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I have a 26" Remchoke barrel just sitting there doing nothing. Would make a nice duck gun.
 
pvtjohnson said:
I have a 26" Remchoke barrel just sitting there doing nothing. Would make a nice duck gun.
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Put a layer of thread tape (plumbers tape) under the mag cap or you'll find it will back off with the newer barrel. Theres other, more complicated and expensive solutions but the thread tape works just fine.

My wife and I both duck hunt with Wingmasters. They're the best pump gun ever made.
 
blasted_saber said:
Put a layer of thread tape (plumbers tape) under the mag cap or you'll find it will back off with the newer barrel. Theres other, more complicated and expensive solutions but the thread tape works just fine.

My wife and I both duck hunt with Wingmasters. They're the best pump gun ever made.
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If the new barrel is for a Wingmaster, there won't be an issue, and no thread tape will be required. If the new barrel is an Express barrel, then the magazine cap will come loose.
 
stubblejumper said:
If the new barrel is for a Wingmaster, there won't be an issue, and no thread tape will be required. If the new barrel is an Express barrel, then the magazine cap will come loose.
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The new barrel is a express. I will be giving it the thread tape treatment for sure.

On my shorty 870, I used thread locker on the end cap. Hasn't budged.
 
pvtjohnson said:
She's heavy. Found this when I searched the patent number on the cylinder.

https://www.gunpartscorp.com/ad/1287480.htm
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Yes, my dad's 1952 vintage Wingmaster had the same weight. You could either put it in the buttstock or the mag tube or leave it out completely depending on your balance preferences. I shot skeet with that gun for a few years in the late 70's, he had a Cutt's on it and the spreader tube was a great skeet choke, unfortunately that Cutt's Compensator was the start of my hearing loss.
 
dave524 said:
Yes, my dad's 1952 vintage Wingmaster had the same weight. You could either put it in the buttstock or the mag tube or leave it out completely depending on your balance preferences. I shot skeet with that gun for a few years in the late 70's, he had a Cutt's on it and the spreader tube was a great skeet choke, unfortunately that Cutt's Compensator was the start of my hearing loss.
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Do you know if that weight came with the gun from the factory?
 
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