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How the Winchester 1886 Shaped the American Frontier
The Winchester 1886 was a powerful rifle that helped shape the Old West’s rugged landscape. This video explores its design, ...
In becoming “The Gun That Won The West,” the Winchester Model 1873 also became the gun that put rapid-fire capability into the hands of shooters everywhere, and, in so doing, launched the ...
Winchester 94 shooters like me hope that our rifles will live on forever, and we should be encouraged by all the new ammo options on the market which make that dream possible. Those initial .30-30 ...
Classic Old Rifles 14. Winchester Model 88. The moose on the sling on this Winchester Model 88 is a tribute to the owner’s dad, who shot a bull with the rifle in 1997. Reader Photo.
At the turn of the 20th century, several companies began developing self-loading mechanisms for handguns and rifles, and one company at the forefront of semi-automatic innovation was Winchester ...
SAGLE, Idaho — Tim Personius wants to know how an old Winchester rifle ended up in Lake Pend Oreille off Sourdough Point. Tim Personius found the old rifle in mid-July while he was checking his ...
Archaeologists conducting surveys in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park came upon a gun frozen in time: a .44-40 Winchester rifle manufactured in 1882. It was propped up against a juniper tree ...
BAKER — A 137-year-old rifle found five years ago leaning against a juniper tree in Great Basin National Park in Nevada is now part of an exhibit dedicated to the "Forgotten Winchester" at the ...
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.
The story of how it got there may never be known, but a rusting 132-year-old Winchester rifle -- known in U.S. lore as "the gun that won the West" -- was recently found resting against a juniper ...
A 137-year-old rifle found five years ago leaning against a juniper tree in Great Basin National Park in Nevada is now part of an exhibit dedicated to the \ ...