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The Winchester rifle’s technological family tree runs through the Henry rifle, used during the Civil War, and on back to 1849, when inventor Walter Hunt patented the Volition Repeating Rifle.
Winchester Repeating Arms has long billed the Model 1873 as “the gun that won the West,” and in this case, they may just be right. When the West really was wild, the Model 73 lever gun was the ...
But waiting in the wings was the first lever action rifle as we know it, the Henry repeater. In 1855, a shirtmaker named Oliver Winchester bought a controlling interest in the Volcanic Repeating ...
The Browning brothers succeeded by designing what was to become the most popular repeating rimfire rifle Winchester ever produced, the Model 1890 slide-action repeater, a slim, lightweight, ...
Once the U.S. Repeating Arms plant closes March 31, the only new rifles carrying the famous Winchester name will be the modern, high-end models produced in Belgium, Japan and Portugal. The older ...
For 2022, Winchester Repeating Arms announced a brand-new bolt-action repeater, the Xpert in 22 Long Rifle. Designed for rimfire performance in a lightweight package the Xpert 22 LR marries manual ...
With barely any formal education, this determined New Englander rose to found the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, maker of one of the first repeating rifles the world had ever seen. The Winchester, ...
The gun that won the West' Archaeologists traversing the Great Basin National Park in Nevada came across an interesting find: a 132-year-old Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle. The Facebook ...
The next shot ensured that he really didn’t mind. In 1866, the New Haven Arms became Winchester Repeating Arms. They introduced an updated and improved Henry-style rifle called the Winchester Model ...
According to Morgan, Utah-based Winchester Repeating Arms, 720,610 of the rifles were manufactured between 1873 and 1916. In 1882 alone, more than 25,000 of the 1873 models were made. The gun sold ...
“An eccentric firearm heiress believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.” It’s the description of Helen Mirren’s newest film ...
However, the Repeater Carbine is rendered relatively useless once players unlock some of the better repeaters in the game, ...