![]() ![]() The Models 18 combined proved wildly successful with over 1.6-million of the handy shooters made by 1932 and inspiring such imitation as the Colt Lightning. This gun was modified in 1906 with a rounded barrel as the logically named Model 1906. Spawned from Browning’s drawing board, this gun was a super simple pump-action rifle, the first of its kind, and it was fast, light, and accurate to boot. Barrel address and caliber markings are clear and excellent. Barrel and magazine tube has a very good blue, thinning a bit in places. (Dull due to shooting corrosive Ammo Back in 1888). ![]() That very year the new Model 1890 slide-action. Bore has worn rifling but is all visible. It was then, while making moves to diversify this line, Bennett contracted with a young gunsmith by the name of John Moses Browning. They needed new rifles, better rifles and to come up with new ideas he reached out for new blood. One of the first things that Bennett did was look at the company’s dated line of 1870s lever action rifles and shake his head. The company picked up a new president, Mr. In the year 1890, a few things happened at Winchester. These handy guns put food on the table, taught many a young shooter, and proved the weapon of choice for those who would plink tin cans, clay ducks, or spin the pinwheels at carnival shooting galleries on warm summer days. With roots dating back to the 1890s, the Winchester Model 62 was the best of a long line of. ![]() This gun would become one of the most widely used gallery guns at carnivals and boardwalks. Winchester Model 62a pump action rifle advertisement.
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