We have a new shotgun called the Coyote Cap M-93/97wcse-18 "Special Edition, 1 of 200 model". These shotguns were built as a Commemorative model, to honor the memory of my father, (the real Coyote Cap who was a Master Gunsmith who passed away in 1965). As such, each new shotgun will eventually become a collectors item, as each of these guns has a distinctive 1 of 200 serial number and 18k gold lettering. Because of our policy of "NO COMPROMISE" in Quality of our product, each gun is "Custom Built" this process takes time as each new shotgun is carefully gone through to make sure of a very high standard, due in part to it's modernization in materials, strength, safety, reliability and period correctness.

These guns come from the factory with all the bells and whistles, (3) choke tubes, that are custom made, stainless steel and laser engraved, plus the special shorter, slightly heavier (thicker) barrel and a large #4 front sight bead and the shorter buttstock with a Pachmayr Sporting Clays Recoil pad installed for competition shooting with an AOA of -4 degrees and a 13" LOP.

Each gun was modified to hold (6) 12ga. cartridges up the magazine tube for SASS Wild Bunch competitions.

Each gun is also, highly polished and Damascened (Jeweled) .

Because these new shotguns were designed to improve the safety and reliability of shotguns used in SASS, that is where the market is. However, these shotguns are in fact 99% a model 97 and only made to look like a model 93. If there is any advantage to this gun in it's use in competition, that advantage is in the reliability of the shotgun, it cannot be loaded any quicker.

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NOTE:  We received information from folks that are fed up with the notion these guns can be loaded faster because of the open top design. They simply place a strip of black tape over the open top portion of the action. The guns are successfully used in Wild Bunch matches where the stage is started with (6) shells up the mag tube, hammer down on an empty chamber, making the supposedly faster loading a moot point because the gun is fully loaded.

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If you will notice in the below photo, the thickness of the frame material and the exposed extractors. If you try and load over the top of the 93 port, the extractors can catch on the rim of the cartridge and jam the gun. The metal to metal measurement of these guns is exactly the same measurement as an M-97. 3"x 1".

Other notable differences in the M-93/97 to previous M-97's are the removal of the mag tube cartridge release buttons and replacement with large screws the same as the old C and D model Winchesters had. The reason for this reverse change is the fact that the little screws that hold the cartridge stops in later models, had a nasty habit of falling out while firing and jamming the gun. The idea of going back to Browning's designs (that worked) is what this gun is all about. Other changes include a change to tappered and tuned mainsprings and conversion of the old leaf spring left extractor to factory coil operation.

There is another new firing pin design of ours that is now factory customized to be extremely light in weight with a spring in front of the tip to prevent breaking the tips, plus the firing pin is too short to fire the gun unless the hammer is fully to the rear and the trigger is deliberetly pulled.

There are a lot of other changes to make the guns better and more reliable, but not enough room on this page to list everything we did to improve these guns.