Mazur's Magic

The transformation of a Model 21

In October 1929 the bottom dropped out of America's financial market, and with it went much of the country's wealth. For most of America, there was no money, no jobs and no prospect of change anytime soon. With depression as a backdrop, in the spring of 1930 the then nearly moribund Winchester Repeating Arms Co. launched its first side-by-side. The gun, the Model 21, quickly became the favored child of the company's new owner, John Olin. It represented his ideal of an American-made firearm that would hold its own against any British-made double.

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