When HK brought over the 512 and Franchi first produced the SPAS-12, both were offered with shot diverters similar to duckbills.
The idea of optimizing shotgun patterns for combat or self defense wasn’t even that new of a concept back then, a patent search will turn up countless shotgun muzzle devices dating back to the late 1800s! You can observe some historical shot diverter technology in the commercial US market as well.
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They worked well, but would fail and crack over time leading to the incorporation of a steel ring at the front of the bills (see image below). The duckbill Watson used was made by the Navy in Crane.
The Duckbill was designed to spread patterns of number 4 buck horizontally, making it, in Watson’s eyes, ideal for use in the jungle. In this book, Chief Watson would often talk about the pistol grip Ithaca 37 with duckbill attachment he carried in Vietnam. These were the pre-internet days and you frequently discovered things you never knew existed in the pages of a book.īack in 1997, as a young Marine NCO, I grabbed a copy of Walking Point, a book written by the late Navy SEAL James Watson (below, holding a duckbill equipped Ithaca 37). I grew up reading every military book I could get my hands on. She's also a very plainly dressed gal, function over glamor with her bead blasted finish, lack of the traditional game scenes and unadorned smooth walnut stocks, but I think I'm in love.Shotgun Duckbill review: Scattering shot with Paradigm’s GATOR I don't need the 3" chamber, and may never buy a box of the longer shells, but I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship. I read they put a slightly straighter stock on the Magnum Model, maybe that's it. It served me well in my upland game hunting ventures, but I always craved one with a vent rib, even thought of sending the old gal to Upper Sandusky lately to have the work done and a new interchangeable barrel fitted, but then I came across a Featherlight Magnum '12 for sale with that vent rib barrel I've been craving locally and lay the cash in the owners hand!.The more I handle it, the more I like it, it seems to come up faster and more natural than even my old '53 Featherlight. It was some years and a trip half way around the world at Uncle Sam's expense before I got the Featherlight bug again, but I finally lay my hands on one I could call my own, a 1953 vintage Field grade Featherlight in 12ga. It was deadly enough and I was proud to carry it around for my hunting trips into the fields and woodlands in my area until a neighbor kid got a '37 for his birthday gift, vent rib barrel, Raybar sight, and handsome walnut stocks! single shot, (probably made by Iver and Johnson by the looks of it). My early hunting years saw something less that a '37, I carried around an old, "EXCEL" 16ga. The 37's always stood out as slim, trim, and ready to dance, whereas even the Model 12's seemed rather chunky and clumbsy to cradle in your arms. Yup, Joe truley was a boy's best friend!Īnyway, they always had a few Ithaca 37's on the rack, along with Model 12's and a few other shotguns of dubious background and parentage.
There was a chain of stores called, "Joe, The Motorist Friend" it shoulda been called, "Joe The Kid's friend!" They sold tires, batteries, oil, and automotive supplies, but they had an isle of great toys, and one entire side of the stores was guns, hunting, fishing, and archery stuff, (they also had the only Santa around at Christmas time). My introduction to the Featherlight was in the 50's.
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