I inherited a Winchester Model 24 12ga and brought it home a few weeks ago.

[phatcyclist]

It was my great grandfathers shotgun. I've seen it up on the wall every time I've visited my whole life and I finally got to bring it home for some TLC and probably a little bird hunting. It has 26 inch barrels with cylinder bore and modified chokes. It is in pretty good shape, very good functionally and it locks up tight. It has a little patina on some of the parts and I've polished the bores a little as they had a little rust at the end. I cannot get it all out but I think that applying oil every so often should be fine. Anyway, here are some pictures:

The fat receiver. It's striker fired and not a concealed hammer mechanism, which is pretty neat.

2 3/4" chamber, so it can use common shells

With the fore-end off to see the choke sizes

What's left of the rust in the bore, you really can't feel it with your finger so it should be OK.

 

[Texas1911]

Pretty nice man.

 

[fnmedallion]

i'd take it any day and rock and roll

 

[Texasjack]

You might want to get a can of "Barricade". It's pretty good at stopping rust.

Before plastic shotgun shells, they used thick waxed paper. The wax helped keep the bore from rusting.

Everybody drools over some really tooled wall-hanger, but I think a gun that's seen real use like this one is far cooler.

 

[phatcyclist]

I'm taking it to a 'smith tomorrow to have that looked at. Hopefully it can be honed out but we'll see. I can keep the rust from getting worse if nothing else can be done.

 

[Mikey]

I have the same shotgun- mine was made in 1948. I've owned it for about 13 years now and put a bunch of rounds through it. It's a great bird gun.

 

[zembonez]

Very cool! It will clean up nicely too.

 

[phatcyclist]

The 'smith told me it was going to be pretty easy to get the bores cleaned up. In a few weeks I should have it back.

I need to pull my gun-stock cleaning supplies out of my closet and really get the wood clean after I have it back.

 

[Alamo Ann]

As a Winchester collector myself let me say- wooooooooooooooooohoo cowboy!
Get that baby to the "doc"; cherish it; and know you have an excellent investment item there that steadily appreciates in value as time goes by!
Beautiful!!!!
Congratulations!

 

[MR Redneck]

This may sound crazy, but if you would go shoot the mess out of that thing, the rust will go away. When you get dont, clean and oil it.

 

[San Antone RR]

This may sound crazy, but if you would go shoot the mess out of that thing, the rust will go away. When you get dont, clean and oil it.

This.

 

[phatcyclist]

When I get it back, there will be some bird hunting.

 

[phatcyclist]

I finally got the Winchester back from the gunsmith and they did a pretty darn good job considering what they had to work with.

 

[John Chambers]

Very nice! Take it hunting, don't let that fine weapon go to waste. I started using my Grandfather's Parker doiuble to hunt 2 years ago and it adds a nice feeling to an already great experience.