WANTED - WINCHESTER MODEL 50 SEMI-AUTO 12g

[Floating Chamber]

The vintage Winchester Model 50 12g semi-auto.

 

Here are some pics.

 

The first photo is of its inventor, David Marshall 'Carbine' Williams. He is holding his hand-built protoype made in 1949. Taken circa 1964.

 

 

 

This photo of Mr. Williams and his son, David, is from a 1951 magazine. He is holding the then secret hand-built prototype, three years before the launch of the Model 50 in 1954. He is concealing the action.

 

 

 

This photo is of the 'Floating Chamber' he invented. This is the gizmo that enabled the FIRST semi-auto shotgun to cycle with a FIXED non-recoiling barrel.

 

 

The floating chamber is shown here with a subsonic shell alongside. To my knowledge, the model 50/59 is the only semi-auto that will cycle these shells.

[Floating Chamber]

I had to reply to my own post to call it back. i promised you pics a while back

FC

[Ferret Master]

Not exactly a happy looking chap is he. :blink: Are the Magnosonics 26g?

 

FM :blink:

[Floating Chamber]

Not exactly a happy looking chap is he. :blink: Are the Magnosonics 26g?

 

FM :blink:

 

You latch on quick Ollie. He received a 30 year hard labour prison sentence at the age of 21 for the killing of a deputy sheriff. (There was so much shooting going on at Williams' illegal still, he may have been shot by one of the sheriff's men!) According to Ross E. Beard, Jr (Carbine's biographer and true friend), he was not the easiest person to get along with. It was in Caledonia Prison Camp, N.C. that he invented the floating chamber and short stroke piston for the M1 Carbine. He was pardoned after about 8 years.

 

The Magnasonic is a 28 gram load.