Standard: had barrels with matte or vented rib, select grade straight or pistol-gripped walnut stocks, produced from 1931 – 1944.The configurations and their identifying features are as follows: In spite of this, the weapon had a number of standardized configurations when the weapon was offered as a normal production gun.
Many different configurations are available owing to the Model 21's bespoke nature. The Model 21 was mostly made in 12 gauge, although other calibers are available. Due to this no heat treatment is required for the barrels, making them about twice as strong as other normal gun barrels. The barrels have lumps designed to be dovetailed together, and after which are pinned and soldered together using 50/50 Sn-Pb solder. Ĭhopper lump barrels are used on the Model 21 these are made of a heat-treated chromemoly steel. The Model 21's frame is noted as being longer than most shotguns this further increases the gun's strength as it increases the leverage of the underbolt which holds the bolts to the action. The Model 21's frames are of heat-treated chromemoly steel forgings, leading to blued finishes and being twice as strong as its contemporaries. The Model 21 is a double-barrel shotgun with selective ejectors renowned for its extremely strong action. After this, Winchester sold the rights to production to the Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company, which produces the guns on a special arrangement in small numbers. Repeating Arms Company (the company that owned the Winchester trademarks at the time) had stopped taking orders by 1988, despite the gun having never been formally discontinued. įrom 1959 to 1990, some 1,000 more Model 21s were manufactured by the Winchester Custom Shops, although the U.S. As such, Winchester discontinued standard production of the Model 21 in 1959 and made it a special order only gun the same year. However well the Model 21 was selling, however, Winchester felt it was simply no longer viable to market the Model 21 as a production gun, as manufacture of the Model 21 was extremely expensive. Another test involved firing a standard 12 gauge shell through a modified Model 21 with the top lever and locking bolt removed the weapon managed to fire it and remained successfully closed using just hand pressure. None of the competing brands was able to fire more than 305 of these "violent proof" shells, while the Model 21 fired 2,000 shells with no signs of damage or wear after this, the test was stopped and the gun disassembled. This "test of destruction" involved Winchester engineers firing "violent proof" (50% more powder charge ) shells through each of the shotguns until they broke or were no longer workable. To promote the gun even further, a very ingenious marketing campaign was used, involving a Model 21 and several other double-barreled shotguns from various other highly-regarded brands the shotguns were purchased by Winchester and all subjected to "a test of destruction". Heavily marketed and promoted by Olin who compared his newest product to the finest British double-barreled shotguns (which were regarded as of the best quality in the world), the Model 21 was a success, although not instantaneously due to the effects of the Great Depression. That same year, a man by the name of John Olin became the president of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, and strove to market the shotgun in such a way that it would make it appear superior to just about any shotgun in the world. The weapon was announced in January 1931, despite the United States having experienced a major stock market crash two years prior. Burton, including Winchester employees George Lewis, Louis Stiennon and Edwin Pugsley (then-Winchester's factory manager ), would then be tasked with designing this weapon. Johnson, wanted to design a high-quality double-barrel shotgun for manufacture by the company in what would be the final design he would have a hand in before his death. The design history of the Model 21 goes back to 1924, where the Winchester design team, under the direction of T.C.
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