This is a Winchester Model 1873, 22 short caliber. made in 1880s and left in a leaky barn for past 50 years. I got this rifle at a garage sale for $25. I did research and realized I found a very very ...
The weathered Winchester Model 1873 is in a case designed ... former curator of a firearms museum at the Buffalo Bill center, has said Model 1873 rifles were so valuable that whoever owned the ...
The iconic Winchester Model 1873, famously wielded by John Wayne in countless Westerns, earned the moniker “The Gun That Won the West.” 1 The Winchester Repeating Arms Company, founded in 1866 ...
After creating the “Gun that Won the West”—the Winchester Model 1873 rifle—they had a new task: manufacturing guns that could help win World War I. At this indoor range, men—perhaps ...