JimT Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 I was flipping thru the new Field and Stream last night and it tells of the 50 Best Guns Ever. It also lists the three worst. One of the three is the Winchester 1400 autoloader. Do any of you guys have one? My buddy has one and it has been a great shotgun for him. He and I rarely miss with it, it pulls up nice, and never jams. I found it odd that this gun was listed. The author of the article, David Petzal, lost alot of credibility with me over it. Opinions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Re: Winchester Looks like a double post here Jim. Dont know anything about the 1400, but does kind of surprise me that a winchester firearm would be in the bottom 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimT Posted January 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Re: Winchester [ QUOTE ] Looks like a double post here Jim. Dont know anything about the 1400, but does kind of surprise me that a winchester firearm would be in the bottom 3. [/ QUOTE ] Ya, I know. Not sure how that happens. I tried to delete one but couldn't. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooBear Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Re: Winchester Its not a very well made gun. Your buddy might have bought the only good one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Re: Winchester Yeah, Jim...........I saw that, too. I had a 1400 XTR Walnut 12 ga. with a 22" VR Winchoke barrel. It was my constant companion behind my Brittany and it killed a couple pickup loads of pheasants. It fit me like a glove. It functioned flawlessly...........never, EVER failed to cycle (and I'm "less than anal" about my gun cleaning habits, at times), and the fit & finish was extraordinary for a $350 gun. If you'll also notice............ the Glocks were not listed anywhere in the top 100, either. 60-some percent of all American law enforcement agencies must be using an "also ran" duty weapon. David Petzal can go jump in a lake, as far as I'm concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Re: Winchester Yeah, I saw it too. If you read the editor's notes on pg 11, I guess he tries to say the list is subjective, and it is. Nobody in the world could make a 50 best list of anything without ruffling feathers. I made a list of what I would expect to see on that list, then I read the article and I hit quite a few of them, but then after reading the article, I quickly noticed that it was Petzal's list, not an "all time" list. Had it been an "all time greatest gun list" you would have to include the Colt 1911 .45ACP, the colt peacemaker, the remington rolling block, the Sharps breech loader, AK47, et. al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Re: Winchester OK Jim, what do you think the top 5 shotguns should be? Should they be the best quality, the most popular, how about guns that have had the biggest impact on the shooting world, or what? Its very objectionable to make a list of the best and worst. Like so many of the gun writers, they are just making a column. He could make a new list every month and rationalize every pick, and have new entries each time. Sometimes the editor can give them an assignment and they can throw something like that in so readers will respond with things like, "this clown does not know what he is talking about". It lets them gauge how many people actually read the column. Its a marketing gauge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 Re: Winchester I have one, had it for about 20yrs now. NEVER cleaned it till last year, and NEVER, NEVER had a cycling problem. That puppy has killed a many squirrel and quail in it's time, along with my first 2 turkeys ever, and those were killed at around 30yds with #8 bird shot! And I was highly perturbed to see that gun on that list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonhunter Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 Re: Winchester I must be the odd duck here...oh well. My dad won a 1400 the first year it came out. He never had a jam either but the gun did go off double(actually triple on him) rabbit hunting once. He pulled the trigger once and the gun kept banging untill the mag was empty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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