My dad bought a Remington Wingmaster 20 gauge shotgun when he was in the US Navy in 1954 and it has killed numerous deer, turkeys, grouse, hundreds of rabbits and pheasants.

He gave it to my brother about 15 years ago and my brother still has it in his gun cabinet to this day.

I bought my first Remington Wingmaster Supermag when they first came out. As a matter of fact, I put a deposit on two of them in Feburary of 1997? and picked them up about September or October of 1997.

I'm pretty sure about the dates because I had it in my car when I was in a auto accident May 1998 and I had it to a gunsmith the fall of that year when something was not aligning right.

The old Wingmasters were as slick as a well oiled machine, the new Wingmasters are a poor excuse of a firearm - as others has said, they have cheapened them with no metal blueing except on the Fore end tube assembly and some internal parts. The rest all has that black powder coat type finish that is as rough as a corn cob.

Regardless of what you get (old or new) - the barrels all interchange from the first to the last as long as you use the same size chamber from one gun / barrel to the next, which makes them the Small Block Chevrolet of firearms.