Winchester was one of the first manufacturers to jump into the low-cost bolt-action .22 market with its John Browning-designed Model 1900. While Winchester’s previous .22 rifles had been based ...

The Model 94 was produced continuously by Winchester from 1894 through 1980, when production of the gun was taken up by the U.S. Repeating Arms Company ,which made the Model 94 until 2006.

My father used it competitively in the early 1900s with a Winchester Model 52 rifle. A: ... the early examples were longer than the barrels of the rifles onto which they were mounted. By 1900, ...

The Model 1876 was turned in to Standing Rock Reservation Indian Agent Major James McLaughlin (1842-1923), who subsequently became the first owner of Sitting Bull’s rifle. Sitting Bull’s Winchester ...

Mom started off with a Winchester Model 37, Dad’s deer rifle was a Model 100, and they eventually had matching Model 12s. But my first centerfire rifle was a Remington 700 chambered in .270 Win.

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company’s Model 1866 was a refinement of the Henry rifle that used a new loading gate in the receiver and a wooden hand guard. No longer would the rifle have to be ...

Were it not for the Winchester Model 1894 rifle, and more specifically those chambered in .30/30 Winchester caliber, deer hunting in America might not be the same today. That’s a ...

If this rifle could talk, it may recite a yarn of weary settlers on horseback, scouring for water. The Winchester Model 1873 was found in the Nevada desert.

4. Winchester Model 1911 Self Loader The Winchester 1911 SL was an ill-conceived shotgun. Wiki Commons. This shotgun was more notorious than famous. It took engineer Thomas Crossley a full 10 years to ...

The Winchester model 1873 lever action rifle, popular among American frontiersmen at the end of the 19th century for its reliability, inspired the 1950 James Stewart film "Winchester '73." ...

When I was a teenager living in northern Minnesota, my father took me down to the Coast to Coast hardware store and bought me a Winchester Model 94 lever-action rifle. A gun cabinet hung from the ...

In 1964, Winchester made some changes to the rifle’s original design, but the platform remained the same. Those rifles produced before 1964 became known as Pre-’64 Model 70s and are considered ...