Model 1887

The Winchester Model 1887 is a lever-action shotgun originally designed by American gun designer John Browning and produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Model 1887 used black powder 12-gauge shells and 10-gauge shells, but replicas made today are often chambered for more common modern ammunition. It is featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
The Model 1887 is used by the Ultranationalists and the Militia in Takedown. It can also be found on Museum. It is unlocked at the late level 67 in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer mode. Although its wooden stock of the weapon has been sawn off, The Model 1887 has the farthest range of any of the shotguns. With Stopping Power, Steady Aim, and Akimbo, its range of lethality is increased even further, making it deadly at an incredibly long range. The Model 1887 is probably the most effective shotgun in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer as it has such incredible accuracy and power at mid range. This is, however, off-set by its slow (compared to other shotguns) rate of fire and reload time. The Model 1887 is favored among high-level players, as a Akimbo wielding player can devastate groups of players on a close to mid range map.

Trivia

 * The Model 1887 is the oldest weapon to ever be featured in a Call of Duty game.
 * The Model 1887 is the only lever-action weapon in the game.
 * The Winchester 1887 was featured in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and was used by Arnold Schwarzenegger's character (a T-800 Terminator). Its appearance here may be a homage to the weapon from the film, as they both have a sawed-off stock and barrel, as well as a large lever loop allowing for one handed cocking (also known as "flip-cocking"). While using the 1887 Akimbo, the player spins the lever around their finger to reload. This is also how Arnold reloads the shotgun in the movie.
 * The reloading animation has the player loading one shell into the barrel (the upper tube) and the rest into the tube magazine (the lower tube.)
 * The 1887 has been criticized for being over-powered compared to the other shotguns, so much so that players that have Akimbo 1887s end up dominating most matches.
 * The Model 1887s used are chambered for more powerful 10-gauge shells, which explains the weapon's unusually long effective range. This is seen in the 10-gauge shell casings, which are blue, as opposed to 12-gauge shell casings, which are red.
 * On Infinity Ward's website the Model 1887 was voted the most popular shotgun in Modern Warfare 2.