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Does that refer to the year that model appeared? I was looking at some descriptions of the show that indicated it took place in the 1870s & 80s.

Looks like they took a little artistic license. Only gun nuts like me would notice. And even then, only after a google search...LOL.

What time period was the rifleman? The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain. It was set in the 1870s and 1880s in the fictional town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory.

(ABC,-TV 1958-1963) The Rifleman states that “Lucas McCain” (Chuck Connors) can fire a round with his specially modified Winchester rifle in three-tenths of a second! This is a beautiful, screen-used custom modified 44-40 Winchester model 1892, saddle ring carbine (serial number 497689) manufactured in 1909.