The first Premier Auction of 2025, featuring more than 1,800 lots, will be Friday May 2 to Sunday May 4 at Rock Island Auction Company's Bedford, Texas venue. A full-day preview will be May 1. The ...

The grand prize of Dodge City’s centennial celebration, a One of One Thousand model Winchester 1873, a near-mythical rifle said to ... The bonus materials on Criterion’s new 4K release of Winchester ...

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 ...

I’d had my heart set on a shiny new semi-automatic rifle chambered ... The two have been practically synonymous ever since. While Winchester produced other lever action rifles, including the Model ...

founded by Oliver Winchester in 1866, and located in New Haven, Connecticut. The company was most well known for its Model 1873 lever-action rifle, marketed as "The Gun That Won the West." By the ...

And while new and evolving technologies like precision ... with the introduction of the Model 1873 Springfield, which fired a bullet with a self-contained cartridge, that the U.S. Army adopted ...

The Model 1873 was not “The Gun That Won the West,” as Winchester proclaimed, but a profusion of New Haven–assembled ordnance did help American soldiers prevail in two world wars ...

Seven years later, Winchester unveiled Model 1873 that used the same basic toggle-link action as the Henry but was chambered in new center-fire ammunition. It proved to be a huge commercial success.

Cowan’s Auctions The Winchester Model 1876 lever action rifle was also known as the “Centennial Rifle” because it was made for the U.S. Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The rifle ...

In particular, the 1873 model was incredibly popular with settlers and ... a few hours north of her New Haven home. As the story goes, Winchester shared her guilt over the numerous victims of ...

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 ...