Herb was so fast a shot that he was even called to serve his country in World War 2 as a gunnery instructor, teaching young men the basics of shooting down aircraft with Winchester 12s among other guns. Herb Parsons, a well-known exhibition shooter, would often break seven clays thrown into the air with one of these shotguns, firing one round per clay. The lack of a trigger disconnector (who would want one of those anyway) meant that the gun could fire as fast as you could pump the action-which proved pretty fast indeed. The gun was fast, which made it one of the most popular on the market. While the Model 97 ‘hammer-gun’ was still in production as late as 1957, the hammerless M12 outsold it by more than 2:1. Selling it first as the Model 1912, after WWI they simply marketed it as the Model 12.
Winchester pushed the guns out to its salesmen and to good effect, becoming one of the most popular shotguns of its day. This gun continues to find it’s way on to battlefields. Model 12 seen here in the hands of a Marine in the Pacific during WWII.
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