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Engineering Around Genius: Winchester’s Forgotten 1911 SL

Engineering Around Genius: Winchester’s Forgotten 1911 SL

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Way back when, “A man’s word was his bond.” But in 1901 the bond between two powerhouses in the firearms industry was broken.  T.G. Bennet, President of Winchester, and John M. Browning had come to an impasse over how JMB would be compensated for his latest creation: the Auto 5 shotgun.