Winchester Rifle May Have Fired Last Shot

cnn.netscape.cnn ^ | April 13, 2006 | Netscape/cnn

[taxed2death]

Manufacturing wise...yes... but there is still plenty of old school Yankee ingenuity going on here...
from LASER development to cutting edge robotics....and that's just in CT.

[absolootezer0]

pre-64's are better than post, and you'd be amazed how tight the actions are on pre-wwii lever actions.

[Joe 6-pack]

"...but there is still plenty of old school Yankee ingenuity going on here... from LASER development to cutting edge robotics...."

I'm not interested in any lever action laser....I'll just stick with the .30-30 for now.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

A beauty, that's for sure! (Sigh)

[printhead]

The sad part is that they'll go the route of companies like Singer or Schwinn or Westinghouse or Sorel (yeah, I know they were Canadian) and lot's more; some chinese firm will buy the name and put it all over the new plastic products and include something like "Since 1898".

[OldPossum]

I see that you took the title of the post from the first sentence in the story.

I understand why, for dramatic purposes, this was the language used, but a story in the latest issue of "Guns & Ammo" states that there are some five million 94's out there, including one at the OldPossum's house. So, this piece of Americana certainly hasn't fired its "last shot."

[Denver Ditdat]

I'm not interested in any lever action laser....I'll just stick with the .30-30 for now.

...a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range...

Hey, just what you see, pal.

[Myrddin]

FN owned USRAC. Olin owns the Winchester brand name. As of now, only the European (FN) manufactured Winchester products will be available for sale. The unions made USRAC unprofitable. Olin still uses the Winchester brand name on the ammo they manufacture. They could bestow the brand name on another manufacturer of lever guns if someone wants to do it again.

I like my Marlin 45-70 (1895G) just fine. A real Winchester 30-30 level action would be a fine addition to the collection.

[fish hawk]

I have an original Winchester 73 and bought it from a friend when I was a teen for 65 dollars. I've always wanted a 1895 in 30.06. Teddy Roosevelt took one to Africa and did a lot with it over there. Sad about the company, but Smith and Wesson closed down and later someone bought it and you can still buy fine S and Ws.

[nightdriver]

Winchester made a BIG mistake along about 1964 when they quit making their butter-smooth Model 70 rifles domestically. The foreign-made ones just never could quite measure up.

They never really recovered from that.

[MD_Willington_1976]

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