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The Winchester Model 1886 was a lever-action repeating rifle designed by John Browning to handle some of the more powerful cartridges of the period. Originally chambered in .45-70 Government, .45-90 Sharps, and .40-82 Winchester, it was later offered in a half dozen other large cartridges, including the .50-110 Winchester. [1]
The .45-70 is a popular choice for black-powder cartridge shooting events, [citation needed] and replicas of most of the early rifles, including Trapdoor, Sharps, and Remington single-shot rifles, are often available. The .45-70 is a long-range caliber, and accurate use requires knowledge of windage and elevation by minute of angle and a sense ...
Those four rifles, in calibers .38-55 Winchester, .405 Winchester, .45-70 Government, and .45-90 Sharps, were built in the style of the 19th century, with crescent steel butt plates and 19th-century style folding tang sights, along with full octagon 28-inch-long barrels. Their rifling, in the case of the .38-55, are the (Winchester) traditional ...
The Winchester 1300 shotgun was first introduced in around 1981, when the US Repeating Arms Company (USRAC) took over production of the 'Winchester' brand guns from the Olin / Winchester corporation. Model 9410 (2001) lever-action .410-bore shotgun (Model 94 variant)
Winchester rifle is a comprehensive term describing a series of lever action repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Developed from the 1860 Henry rifle, Winchester rifles were among the earliest repeaters. The Model 1873 was particularly successful, being marketed by the manufacturer as "The Gun That Won the West".
The Model 71 was conceived as a replacement for both the Model 1886 and Model 1895 as a complement to the Winchester Model 70 bolt-action rifle and to replace a raft of cartridges (the .33 Winchester, the .45-70, the .35 Winchester, and the .405 Winchester) with just one (the .348 Winchester). [2]
The .45-75 was shorter and fatter than the .45-70 government cartridge. Although the .45-75 was nominally superior to the popular .45-70, the weak toggle-link action with its elevator-style carrier originally designed for handgun cartridges limited the ability of the Model 1876 rifle to safely fire higher pressure loads intended for stronger ...
The .50-140 Sharps, also known as the .50-3 1 ⁄ 4" Sharps, is a black-powder rifle cartridge that was introduced in 1884, as a big game hunting round. [1] It is believed to have been introduced for the Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 rifle. [2] The cartridge is very similar to the .500 Black Powder Express. [3]