I have told this story before but it would seem to appropriate for repeating on this thread. My old friend Sim Kimzey passed away years ago. He owned a Western Auto store and a furniture/interior decorating business. He also had a house full of guns. I never saw him hunt bobwhite quail with anything but a 59 even though he had a personal choice of A-5's, M-12's, various SxS's and O/U's. He had only one Model 59. It was well worn and he always managed to get his limit before any of us younger guys, without fail. Sim liked the way the gun handled which struck us as odd since he shot it from the hip on the covey rise firing one or two shots while leaning his body extremely forward before raising it to his shoulder to pick off a second or third bird. I witnessed this unusual method countless times. His Winchester never cracked the receiver but I remember us discussing this issue as a somewhat common occurance particular to that model. I also saw it happen on a few 12 gauge Model 1100's when they first came out. For whatever reason that seemed to go away after a year or so of production.