grew up in a Winchester home. My first repeating shotgun was naturally a Model 1300, just as my father’s first shotgun was a 1200 and my grandfather preferred his Model 12. But in 2006 when word came down that Winchester wasn’t going to produce the Model 1300 any longer, I suspected I’d be the last member of my family to grow up shooting pump guns from the brand. Fortunately, that changed in 2009 when Winchester—by then under the ownership of FN Herstal—released the next iteration of its
