Winchester Repeating Arms 1200 (Historic Manual) - Manual (Page 4)

TO REMOVE THREE-SHOT PLUG
Federal migratory bird regulations limit the capacity
of any auto-loading or repeating shotgun used for
migratory game bird shooting to three shells.
Your Model 1200 comes to you with a wooden plug
in the magazine tube. The plug permits only two
shells to be inserted in the magazine. Until the
wooden plug is removed, your Model 1200 has a
total capacity of three rounds, two in the magazine
and one in the chamber. To remove this three-shot
plug, follow these directions:
1. Be sure your gun is unloaded.
2. Be sure safety is “ON”.
3. Unscrew and remove magazine cap.
4. The magazine tube plug is under spring tension.
Insert a screwdriver into the hole in the magazine
tube plug and carefully pry upward, holding hand over
plug until it clears the magazine tube.
5. Allow magazine tube plug and spring to slowly
extend to spring’s full length. Remove wooden
three-shot plug.
6. Replace spring in magazine tube. Place magazine
tube plug on end of spring. Carefully compress spring
into magazine tube and tap downward on the
magazine tube plug until it is flush with the end
of the magazine tube.
7. Screw on magazine cap by hand until tight.
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