anthony m coons sr
Well-known member
Back when I was a really young man I bought a Winchester 1897 12 gauge pump from a friend. I think I paid like twenty dollars or so. This pump had a hammer and looked like a gun that might of won the west. But I used it for a few years. Then being a big dummy I wanted to upgrade. So I sold it about forty five years ago. But the guy I sold it to paid me almost five hundred dollars back then. He was a gun collector, but I didn't know that at the time. My dad thought I was lying to him about the money. But its the truth. I don't know what that gun was! I really think I don't want to know. But it had to be something really worth this guys money. It look like the shot guns you saw in those early gangster movies. I wish I still had. But at the time I thought it was a piece of junk . I'm sure you all have stories like this. I would love to hear them.