While talking about his business, Atkinson picked up a Uberti replica of Winchester’s 1873 model, chambered in .38 Special/.357 Magnum, calibers that didn’t exist when the original rifles were ...

A full-day preview will be May 1. The auction will showcase nearly 2,000 items, the guns of icons, historic items, beautifully embellished sporting arms, legendary 19th century firearms ...

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 ...

The two have been practically synonymous ever since. While Winchester produced other lever action rifles, including the Model 1873, which was marketed as “The Gun That Won the West,” the Model 1894 is ...

Frontier men and women used an array of revolvers, rifles, and shotguns of every conceivable design, make, and model. These included the lever-action Winchester Model 1873, a gun so iconic that it ...

But as the 19th century came to a close and ammunition became increasingly powerful, Winchester’s iconic 1873 lever-action rifle could not withstand the high pressures. That’s when John Moses ...

Ness had many other significant historic firearms acquired that included rifles used in the Battle of Little Big Horn, like a Model 1873 Trapdoor Carbine and Relic Colt 1873 single-action. On June 8, ...

SWEETWATER COUNTY — The Sweetwater County Historical Museum added a rifle to its exhibit gallery known by many as “The Gun That Won The West,” a Model 1873 Winchester lever-action.

about it. Buffalo Bill declared it to be “The Boss.” Winchester called it, simply, the New Model of 1873. The rifle came from a dingy brick factory in New Haven, Connecticut, the product of ...