During the 49 years Winchester manufactured the original 1886, nearly 160,000 were ... which has offered big-bore, short-barreled lever-action rifles with rugged aperture sights or scout scopes ...

Winchester—the undisputed king of lever-actions—scaled up its wildly popular Model 1873 to handle some of the large-bore hunting cartridges ... birth of the Model 1886 rifle—U.S. patent ...

who led the action that captured Apache leader Geronimo in 1886. Photo from Wikipedia Cpt. Lawton did not carry the rifle at the time of the operation, but a Winchester worker tracked down the ...

An 1886 Winchester rifle that once belonged to a man who helped capture Apache leader Geronimo has sold for $1.2 million at an auction. The Rock Island Auction Co., of Illinois, says it became the ...