Need help. Trying to ID a trenchgun heat shield.....

[limafoxtrot]

It has:
-a brass bead sight
-6 rows of 29 holes
-the bayonet adapter sits against the barrel muzzle
-there are three spot welds attaching the heat shield to the bayonet adapter
-there are three barrel clamp screws
-it has 11888388 cast into the bayonet adapter. I may be off on the number as I am having a hard time reading it. It may be 11688388.
Thanks,
-Len

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[browningautorifle]

Pics would help greatly Len...

[JJM]

Sounds like it's for a Winchester model 1200

[limafoxtrot]

I assumed that it is for a Winchester 1200, but wasn't sure. I had a similar one, but it had another row of markings. I do not have it to take pictures. It is was offered to me for purchase, but I don't know a fair value. It is well used with a few dents, the finish on the sheet metal has browned and is missing the barrel clip that is mid way down the shield. Otherwise, it is complete and functional.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Doesn't the adapter for the 1200 also take the Garand bayonet as opposed to the old M-17 type?

[browningautorifle]

No, there was one that did though. The originals for the 1200 series took the M 1917 bayonet and they made them new at Ontario knife...(and others I think too...)

[Bruce_in_Oz]

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread....400&viewfull=1

Has some more answers.

And takes note of the Stevens 77E series.

I waded through a large number of ex-US shotguns; Win. 97s, 12s, a couple of 1200s, and, bizarrely, Mod 25 riot guns, Stevens 520s, 520-30s, heaps of 77Es, Rem 870s and a couple of Mod 10s, etc. that were recovered from a big warehouse in Viet Nam in 1995 and delivered to Australia just before the sky fell in on our gun laws. Some very prime goodies; never to be repeated.

[browningautorifle]

I waded through a large number of ex-US shotguns; Win. 97s, 12s, a couple of 1200s, and, bizarrely, Mod 25 riot guns, Stevens 520s, 520-30s, heaps of 77Es, Rem 870s and a couple of Mod 10s, etc. that were recovered from a big warehouse in Viet Nam in 1995

I remember that great find. Some made it here also, the guns ranged from as new to just about done in... I see the shroud you spoke of now...so it was a later type for the 77 (1200 series)

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Jim; You should have seen the "Fish that John West REJECTED!"

[browningautorifle]

"Fish that John West REJECTED!"

Seen!