Welcome to the forum, my dad bought a 97 for $5 in 1964, box of pieces, put it together and I have been using it since. At the end of WW1 and beginning of WW2 Germany petitioned other nations against a weapon that the USA was using because it was inhumane,,,,, yup! the 97 trench gun. Mine's not the trench gun but 28 inch full choke, not showroom condition but has accounted for many feathered feasts.