{"id":26831,"date":"2025-04-18T09:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/trench-guns-from-the-great-war-to-iraq\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:59:15","slug":"trench-guns-from-the-great-war-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/trench-guns-from-the-great-war-to-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Trench Guns from the Great War to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6Qz44RDcSI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Despite their &#8220;trench gun&#8221; name, the use of combat shotguns is almost as old as gunpowder itself, and continues far past their famous use in the Great War. No matter the era or conflict, when stopping power is needed the U.S. Military calls on combat shotguns.<\/p>\n<p>In this video we examine several of the best and least produced examples, all to be offered in our May Premier Auction.<\/p>\n<p>0:10 &#8211; Past use of combat shotguns<br \/>1:22 &#8211; Troubles finding trench gun production numbers<br \/>3:22 &#8211; Winchester Model 1897 Trench Gun<br \/>6:08 &#8211; Winchester Model 12 Trench Gun<br \/>8:14 &#8211; Remington Model 10A Trench Gun<br \/>11:03 &#8211; Stevens 520-30<br \/>13:10 &#8211; Stevens 620A<br \/>14:22 &#8211; Ithaca Model 37<br \/>16:55 &#8211; Winchester Model 1200<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their &#8220;trench gun&#8221; name, the use of combat shotguns is almost as old as gunpowder itself, and continues far past their famous use in the Great War. No matter the era or conflict, when stopping power is needed the U.S. Military calls on combat shotguns. In this video we examine several of the best&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/trench-guns-from-the-great-war-to-iraq\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trench Guns from the Great War to Iraq<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":26832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}