@bonamoleonard for someone who doesn’t consider yourself a hobbyist gunsmith you did an outstanding job on your modification. I hereby now induct you into the hobbyist gunsmith fraternity. You are now a hobbyist gunsmith. Congratulations and welcome to the enjoyable pastime of making your firearms truly your own custom firearm. Don’t stop now find the next project to work on. 
Stay tuned to this thread. Over the past month I have bought five beautifully engraved shotguns. I will be working on customizing a few of them to make the shotguns even more beautiful. It will take me a little bit of time to find and get all of the items that I need to complete these customization. It will be worth the wait.
@bonamoleonard Nice work!
Remington?.
It is a Winchester model 12 from 1958. These shotguns were also used by our Military. One thing that I will be doing is fitting and replacing the stock and forearm with high grade walnut.
IIRC that was the model the kid used in the movie Apocalypse Now.
Good job sir @bonamoleonard
Here is a little bit of info on the Winchester model 12 if anyone is interested. It is a very hardy and reliable shotgun. That reliability attracted the attention of our Military. The model 12 has been used in our Military from 1912 all the way to today. Our Military still has some Winchester model 12 shotguns still in military service 112 years since it’s inception into our military arsenal. That alone should say a lot about the reliability of this model.
It probably was the exact shotgun known as the "Trench gun " in WWI. The Germans tried to have it banned as an inhumane weapon due to its lethality and effectiveness both physically and psychologically. The Hague laughed it off, stating to the effect - Germany introduced and uses chemical and biological weapons and you want a shotgun banned?
Actually the Germans brought up the Geneva Conventionq in relation to torture, using anything that caused cruel and grevious suffering or inhumane treatment in relation to our using shotguns. All the while Germany was using mustard gas and their soldiers would pull the bullet out of their rounds of ammo. They would then add extra gunpowder and reverse the bullet so that the extra gunpowder and the flat bottom of the bullet would cause way more grevious injuries than a FMJ round that everyone was supposed to be using.
The American soldiers in response to the Germans tampering with their issued ammo started cutting or filing the point of their rifle bullets flat so that they acted like soft point ammo. They would also cut a “x” pattern through the copper jacket on all of their sidearm ammo so that it would also expand way more quickly causing more physical damage. Technically this was against the Geneva Convention also. At that time who was going to actually enforce the rules of the Geneva Convention and how would they do it? Noone would and at the end of the war the victor enforcess the rules going forward hence the war crimes tribunal.
I’m building a AR10 in 8.6 BLK. 12” barrel so I was looking for an 11” handguard. Not many choices at that length! Faxon makes a 10.5” so I ordered that one when it came back in stock. I had previously scrounged a couple Aero Precision M5 upper receivers when Midway had a blem sale so when the handguard came in I found out that the anti-rotation tabs on the handguard don’t fit on this receiver. Aero leaves a little ridge at the bottom where the pic rail and the body of the receiver come together. Just barely didn’t go. So I set up the handguard in the mill with a keyseat cutter and shaved off the bottom .03” of the anti- rotation tabs. Little touch up with a black Sharpie for now until I decide what color to Cerakote it.
Nobody would ever know that you have modified that. I wish that I had the knowledge and a mill to do that. I would have had to use my big rotary tool to do that and it wouldn’t have been as neat as you did it.
Excellent!
Those were vicious in the trenches especially when they were slam firing them. They could get out a lot of lead in a short amount of time.
Yes, and that is what a real bayonet looks like…