Lever-Action 1887 Shotguns: Armi Chiappa Vs. Norinco

It is an odd sensation to work through the various levels of the first-person shooter game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and pick up a virtual gun that hasn't seen widespread availability in around a century. That gun is the Winchester Model 1887, a lever-action shotgun originally designed by John Browning and produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The www.callofduty.wikia.com site says of the ancient firepower, "The Model 1887 originally used black powder 12-gauge shells and 10-gauge

For a shotgun that’s been out of factory production for about 100 years, the Winchester 1887 lever action (above right) has life today. A heavily modified version sans buttstock that allowed swing-cocking appeared in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day, carried by “Ah-nald.” In current use, Cowboy Action shooter “Gunfighter” Lassiter, aka Tom Wildenauer, double-loads a Legacy Sports International Chiappa 1887 reproduction. Note the thick buttpad, which replaces the standard steel buttplate.