winchester 1300 review

Winchester 1300 Review - While perusing my favorite Internet Gun Emporium, I saw an old Winchester 1300 Defender. I was given a Winchester Model 1200 'riot gun' in 1980 and remembered it to be a good, well-rounded gun. The 1200 was also a military issue at one point and saw combat duty in Vietnam.

I bought 1300 at short notice. Mine is a 12 gauge with a standard length sporting magazine tube, 18 ½" 'Defender' marked barrel and wood stock. It came with an unmarked, all steel +2 extension that has proven completely reliable in use. Per Winchester, my 1300 was made in 1990.

Winchester 1300 Review

My wife and I shot clay birds that afternoon. The 1300 is light and fast in the hands and a natural pointer from the waist or shoulder. As long as I laughed quickly, my hit rate with 1300 was close to 100%. The Winchester pad worked amazingly well and this gun is not punishing at all.

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I matched the 1300 at 25 yards of 11×17 steel plate. This is one round of Universal #8, Federal 2 3/4″ Magnum 00 buck and Super X slug. Good spread with birdshot, 7 of 9 buckshot on the plate and the slug only printed a few inches above the bead, although I pulled it a little to the right.

The old bead on this gun was more pumpkin shaped than a ball, so I dug out my 3-56 bead for a replacement. I tried the Bradley at first, but it was so big that my slug groups at 100 yards grew a foot. I also went from not being able to miss a clay bird with it, to missing them half the time. I found a 1/8 inch round silver bead in the parts bin and replaced it with a Bradley.

Schedule a time to check the results... This target represents 1 round of #8 Universal and 1 round of Remington #0 12 pellet buckshot, 25 yards. I used Remington 2 3/4″ slugs for this; one at 25, 50 and 100 yards. Then I shot one across the meadow, the other was 196 feet. I caught the 6 o'clock in the bowl without thinking and it landed on the bottom left of the paper. We don't usually think of a pearl sight gun with that much quality, but you can get someone to leave you alone two football fields away.

The 1300 series has something. Winchester advertised the 1300 as a 'Velocity Pump' because its rotating bolt opened when firing, and if you held it lightly in the forearm, the action would open and the spent shell would be ejected. The temptation is to push forward; but if you have not drawn the front end to its rear end, you will close the short-stroke in the empty room. Forget the hype and run the 1300 like any other pump action rifle.

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Another 1300 gremlin appeared in this gun - the dual feed. If this hazard overtakes you, place the gun in a safe position, point it in a safe position and remove the pin that secures the gun assembly. Remove and remove the action from the bottom. A double feed occurs when the primary shell stop ejects a shell from the carrier and the secondary shell stop cannot control the remaining shells in the magazine. This is easily fixed by adjusting the hook of the second stop to the center of the gun; and it worked well this time. Why Winchester chose to bolt these to the trigger assembly instead of seating them in the receiver slots (870, 500) is beyond me. It was a recipe for failure, with the icing provided by the next gremlin.

Remington sold a magazine tube in the receiver on the 870 and I have long hated them for this. Mossberg gets it right by simply inserting them into the receiver. At 1300, Winchester used a plastic "magazine neck", pressed into the receiver. When the 1300 was introduced, plastics were nowhere near as popular as they were 10-12 years later. So the 14th century leaf necks are fragile. They also contain the important front end of the aforementioned shell stops; so the break in the magazine neck becomes a big deal. I should also mention that Winchester hasn't made a 1300 in 10 years and they don't make replacement parts. If you get stuck and need replacement parts, Midwest Gunworks is a factory recommended supplier that also carries magazine necks. I might order one to have on hand.

In my opinion the 1200-1300 Winchesters were too weak for military or police purposes. These are certainly not manufactured as hunting or home defense guns. They are light, handle well and have very smooth actions. I really like how it fills up. For me, they are very comfortable to shoot and work with. The 1300 throws excellent patterns for a duty/defense rifle and despite its spartan looks is very lethal with slugs. It needs a little TLC, I can do that. I love it and expect it to find a home here. We moved to western Illinois the summer I was 13. I already had opportunities to fish in places and fish that many foreigners only dream of. But I had never hunted with anything as powerful as a Benjamin pellet gun. My dad introduced me to his .22 and bought me my first compound bow before the leaves started to turn that fall. I was excited about each new tool I found and learned a lesson in its use. But in the back of my mind was the question of when I would get my first gun. I didn't want to ask out loud because I was afraid that the expressed desire would drive away this opportunity. When my dad took me to Merkel's and started looking over the rack of used guns and giving me a few over the shoulder, the only logical conclusion was that we were on my way to buying my first gun. But it was still too amazing to believe, as my father cut down on a 20-gauge Winchester 1300 and put the money down. The gun was a little long for me, but he said I would get it.

Illinois was the only shotgun slug state when it came to modern firearms and whitetails. My Dad, Grandpa, and I found that the Improved Cylinder screw choke and the unusually small bead on the Winchester allowed me to collect Foster slugs very close within 70 yards. The 8-point badger I caught in cover at the north end of the yard was only 40 yards. My father and grandfather saw me coming to the fields and they saw from the way I walked and the way I carried my gun that my stories were good.

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My son is 12 years old. Shot my Winchester 1300 for the first time earlier this fall. It's a bit far for him, but he'll figure it out in time. Most of my hunting is with a gun in my hands these days. But talking about the 20 gauge with my son reminded me how big a smoothbore gun is. There is a lot to be said for a gun that you can use to kill squirrels, doves, quail, pheasants, turkeys, rabbits and deer. Thank you to whoever traded in the Merkel gun, thank you for all the hours I sat on the rack with a slug in the room, thank you for all the walking down the 7 1/2 giggles in my pocket, and thank you . that I have never persuaded myself to trade a gun for another. There are better and more advanced weapons in every shop. But this is mine. Mine because my father gave it to me, mine because of all the things that are being chased, and mine to pass on to someone else who will appreciate all the things it will allow him to do. -

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