The pump-action shotgun is purely American. It began with Christopher Spencer’s toggle-action, followed shortly by the John Browning-designed Winchester Model 1893. At that time, hunters and ...

Hang around some gun guys, and pretty soon you will hear the name of John Moses Browning uttered—often with a tone of reverence. Browning was the most prolific gun inventor of all time with a ...

Most shotgun enthusiasts think John Moses Browning’s Winchester 1893 was the first pump shotgun. But it was Christopher Miner Spencer, an engineer that also built the Union Army a seven-shot repeating ...

I’m fairly certain when John Moses Browning built the Winchester Model 1893, the first commercially successful pump-action shotgun, he didn’t envision duck hunters using future iterations of his ...

Winchester bought his invention and put it on the market as the Model 1893. The M1893 had promise ... Browning did create a much-improved version of the pump gun, the Model 1897, known simply ...

Pump-action firearms (just like lever-action firearms) are purely an American innovation. Late in the 19th century, a major move in the shotgun arena came when genius firearms designer John ...

or firing rapidly enough to have all six empty hulls in the air simultaneously – feats which were simply not practical with the Spencer pump shotguns or the Winchester 1893. Even today ...

The shotguns sell for between $449.99 and $519.99. But exercise caution: In 2015, Winchester issued a recall notice for several Super X Pump (3.5 chamber) models after reports that the shotguns ...

Winchester Repeating Arms has issued a recall on some of its SXP-model 12-gauge shotguns that the company says may fire while the discharge is being closed. A YouTube video is making its way ...

Winchester Repeating Arms recently announced a recall of certain SXP, or Super X Pump shotguns. According to Winchester, a limited number of SXP, 3.5-inch chamber models can discharge when closing ...