Category: All About Guns
While it is not one of The Old Winchesters of ancient to some folks time. When Winchester use to be THE symbol of a high end firearm. It sure beats the new and vastly ugly scatterguns out there in the looks department. Like this sad looking puppy below. Grumpy
Sorry guys but I still say that Blued or case hardened steel, brass, aluminum and some good looking hard wood like Walnut or Birch etc. Is the way to make a classy looking gun. Yeah I know that usually this is not always economically the world looks. But it still does not change the facts as I see them!
This what happens when you get somebody that really knows their way around a Machine Shop. Who is also given some really great material to work on and then has the time to do it right. When the rare event happens this is the end result. Grumpy
14″/45 caliber Mark 1 Mod 1 guns and turrets of USS Texas (BB-35) and USS New York (BB-34) under construction at Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The turret shield was 14 inches thick at the face, 9 inches on the sides, 8 inches at the rear and the roof was 5.75 inches thick. The full turret without shells weighted 532 tons. The maximum range of these guns at 15° elevation was over 12 miles (20 km). It costed $777 in 1914, or $20090.55 in 2019, to fire one gun.
The first turret was installed in USS Texas on March 5, 1913.
