It's your gun, do what you want with it. There are lots of Winchester 1897's let other purists keep their 1897's in hermetically sealed containers (and more power to them, those are their guns). There are 10s or 100's of thousands of 1897's in the world, so they are expensive but not really truly rare. Anyway, it will be interesting to see how your Bull Creek conversion comes out. I hope their replica parts are good quality close to correct copies. I restore classic cars and before originality, except for very rare cars is getting the owner to drive and use their classic and not just have a trailer queen (or a safe queen). So within reason whatever makes the owner happy and gets the car or gun away from being just stored as too "valuable" to actually use.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I definitely recognize that there are a lot of people that won't like what I'm doing to this, and everyone is definitely entitled to their own opinion. I've heard good things about Bull Creek, so hopefully the end product turns out well.
I totally get it. I have a factory original M1 carbine from 43’. The finish is almost 100% As much as I love it, I can’t do anything with it or I’ll hurt the value. So I picked up a run of the mill carbine that was in nice shape. Someone ruined the stock though. Which works for me cause I can take it out and have fun with it, or use it on the ranch and I’m not hurting anything.
That’s not a Remington , it’s a 1897 Winchester. I’ve considered making my 1897 Winchester into a trench shotgun, just haven’t been able to bring myself to do it. Looking foreword to seeing how yours turns out. BZ nice video.
Very nice pickup! I’ve scored some nice things from Century over the years. Last month I bought a Finnish M28/30 for $899. It was listed as Very Good and was actuality marked as Excellent on the tag.
I bought my 1897 trench gun ww2 in a store with a barrel that someone swapped on it it has the stock Cartouche and all of the proper us marking scored it for 350 it was more expensive to find the heat shield
That’s a beautiful shotgun! I’m sure it’s going to look great as a trench gun. In Canada, there’s actually a lot of Chinese reproduction 1897 trench guns interestingly.
I think you did pretty decent on this price-wise. Regular 1897's have been hard to find locally and prices have been up in the $700's (minimum!) because folks know these are desirable for trench shotgun conversions.
Even if you didn’t convert the shotgun , it still looks great and has history . A couple of years ago I was out of town & stopped a pawn shop that I I been to before . They had one on the rack , I asked the price , never mind holding it since I was way short on cash , would have been nice to be able to buy it
Better off buying a no name old cheap pawnshop shotgun to bubba up. Theres loads of worthless jc higgins from sears out there, and they readily accept most Mossberg 500 parts, including extended tube mag, spring, follower, sling, foregrip, and bayonet mount. The top rib precludes the heat shield, however.
ww1 trench guns where solid frames and they had the magazine release buttons where u have screws now that hold the shell stops... Bad idea to ruin this gun for that u better pic one made after 1906 thats a E model as this is a D model model i guess on the shell stop screws it would be sad to get this gun being chopped off and and and...
Thanks for your comment, and I understand that some folks won't approve of this conversion. The company I'm sending it out to has a good track record and I don't anticipate they will ruin this shotgun.
It's your gun, do what you want with it. There are lots of Winchester 1897's let other purists keep their 1897's in hermetically sealed containers (and more power to them, those are their guns). There are 10s or 100's of thousands of 1897's in the world, so they are expensive but not really truly rare.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see how your Bull Creek conversion comes out. I hope their replica parts are good quality close to correct copies. I restore classic cars and before originality, except for very rare cars is getting the owner to drive and use their classic and not just have a trailer queen (or a safe queen). So within reason whatever makes the owner happy and gets the car or gun away from being just stored as too "valuable" to actually use.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I definitely recognize that there are a lot of people that won't like what I'm doing to this, and everyone is definitely entitled to their own opinion. I've heard good things about Bull Creek, so hopefully the end product turns out well.
I totally get it. I have a factory original M1 carbine from 43’. The finish is almost 100%
As much as I love it, I can’t do anything with it or I’ll hurt the value. So I picked up a run of the mill carbine that was in nice shape. Someone ruined the stock though. Which works for me cause I can take it out and have fun with it, or use it on the ranch and I’m not hurting anything.
What a mythic and Legendary shotgun. Good looking, ahead of it's time, you're lucky to have one ! Bravo 🇨🇵🇨🇵
Thanks for watching!
@@usna98 Always a pleasure !
My very first shotgun 🙂 Glad to see Century has gotten more C&R items recently and that this one found a good home. Cant wait to see how it turns out.
Thanks! Yes, they've continued to post a bunch of new C&R items.
That’s not a Remington , it’s a 1897 Winchester. I’ve considered making my 1897 Winchester into a trench shotgun, just haven’t been able to bring myself to do it. Looking foreword to seeing how yours turns out. BZ nice video.
Thanks…brain fart. Fixed it.
Very nice pickup! I’ve scored some nice things from
Century over the years. Last month I bought a Finnish M28/30 for $899. It was listed as Very Good and was actuality marked as Excellent on the tag.
Awesome! I almost picked up one of those M28/30's as well from them. Glad to hear you got a good one.
I plan on sending in my Winchester as well in December. Looking forward to the updated video.
Awesome...let us know how it turns out. It will be a while before I send mine out, but I will post a video once complete.
@@usna98I forgot to message you back, it came out amazing Tom hooked it up, great guy and great service
@@Mason-zp8yb great to hear! I plan on sending mine out to them next year.
Just tried the reamer job and screwed it up ,will tag it and work on it later .
I bought my 1897 trench gun ww2 in a store with a barrel that someone swapped on it it has the stock Cartouche and all of the proper us marking scored it for 350 it was more expensive to find the heat shield
Sounds like a great find! Thanks for watching.
That’s a beautiful shotgun! I’m sure it’s going to look great as a trench gun. In Canada, there’s actually a lot of Chinese reproduction 1897 trench guns interestingly.
Thanks. Yeah, I know that Norinco produced a lot of them. Even those are pretty pricey.
I think you did pretty decent on this price-wise. Regular 1897's have been hard to find locally and prices have been up in the $700's (minimum!) because folks know these are desirable for trench shotgun conversions.
Thanks...it seemed like a pretty good price and my research after the fact confirmed that they do usually go for $700 or more like you said.
Even if you didn’t convert the shotgun , it still looks great and has history . A couple of years ago I was out of town & stopped a pawn shop that I I been to before . They had one on the rack , I asked the price , never mind holding it since I was way short on cash , would have been nice to be able to buy it
Thanks!
Better off buying a no name old cheap pawnshop shotgun to bubba up. Theres loads of worthless jc higgins from sears out there, and they readily accept most Mossberg 500 parts, including extended tube mag, spring, follower, sling, foregrip, and bayonet mount. The top rib precludes the heat shield, however.
This will by no means be a bubba job by the typical meaning of the word. I do recognize that some people won't care for what I'm doing.
how did you buy the gun direct from century?
You need an FFL and have to register it with them.
ww1 trench guns where solid frames and they had the magazine release buttons where u have screws now that hold the shell stops...
Bad idea to ruin this gun for that u better pic one made after 1906 thats a E model as this is a D model model i guess on the shell stop screws it would be sad to get this gun being chopped off and and and...
Thanks for watching!
Too many people ruin these guns trying to make them something they aren't. Don't be one of them please.
Thanks for your comment, and I understand that some folks won't approve of this conversion. The company I'm sending it out to has a good track record and I don't anticipate they will ruin this shotgun.
@@usna98 its like you didn't even read my comment 👍
@@scronk4486 I read it...everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Feel free to tune out if it offends you!