Pickup sprite for a Winchester 1897, the 'Trenchgun' variant, as seen in the first world war, originally designed (as the 1893) by fabled John Moses Browning, as one of the earliest successful pump-action shotguns.
Did this on request and as an excuse to get back into the creative habit, I scaled down a stock photo and stenciled over it, then painted it in, and then did lots of post processing. Feel free to use, just leave my name in the credits somewhere. Truecolor and relatively large.
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Doesn't have the bayonet, but that shouldn't be that troublesome to add. If you've ever looked at the 1897 Winchester, the receiver looks a bit awkward (yet also elegant), it's in fact very short for a pump-action shotgun, part of it is because it doesn't house the bolt and its entire travel like on more modern designs, when you rack the action back, the bolt comes out the back of the receiver (which is fine, unless you have an unusually high grip on the stock), and the shell elevator tilts out the bottom. When used in WW1 and WW2, these guns were issued with fully brass cased shells, presumably to avoid the problem paper hulled shells would face in trenchwar hell, the lead buckshot was also hardened for better penetration.
A cool feature of the 1897 is that the trigger doesn't disconnect after the hammer drops, so you can hold the trigger down and then cycle the pump back and forth to fire the gun very rapidly, so called 'slam-firing'.
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