The Winchester Model 40 - Lightning Flops Twice
Winchester tried again. It was a valiant effort, undermined by schedule crunch and poor testing. The end result was another, yet greater failure for Winchester - one that acted as the cement for the Auto 5. It was here to stay, and Winchester was done trying to dethrone it for awhile.
While the Model 40's legacy ended up being extremely important to the future of shotgun development, this is more on accident than on purpose - Remington stepped up to make the next leap forward for the naught-o fives - and for shotguns as a whole...
For a spreadsheet comparing details of the various shotguns covered in this series: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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