Winchester ruled the roost with its models 1897 and 1912 pumps. Their reliability had become legend, ... The Remington Model 17 pump shotgun was a forerunner to the Model 870.

Savage also made its Model 720 and 745 under license of Browning’s patents. When production ended in 1998, the Browning Auto-5 had sold over 3 million units. Remington’s Model 11, made from 1911 to ...

Developed by the prolific American firearms designer John Moses Browning, the Winchester Model 1897 pump-action shotgun was better known as the “Trench Gun” in World War I. Originally designed ...

3. Remington Model 10 The Remington 10-A was put into service during WW-1. Rock Island Gun Auction. As popular as the Model 12 was, Remington actually beat Winchester to the internal hammer pump ...

On the shotgun side, the Remington Model 870 pump action is possibly the best-selling shotgun ever made (more than 11 million); the Model 1100 semi-automatic shotgun, ...