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To: TexasFreeper2009

Must be something wrong with you! A Winchester designed by none other than John Moses Browning? A favorite of Teddy Roosevelt that has been successfully handling dangerous game and bad guys for half a century as the Model 1886 and the Model 71?

You really from Texas or a recent import from New York?


27 posted on 05/14/2016 3:11:07 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Chainmail

Yes, when Browning sold Winchester the 1885 single shot design, he told them he had a lever action too. That helped make the deal.

It was the first lever action strong enough for the later smokeless powder. The model 92 is just about everyone’s favorite, including me.

According to Browning’s biography, it is mostly just a scaled down model 86.


35 posted on 05/14/2016 3:25:55 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Chainmail

I say imported from back East.


54 posted on 05/14/2016 4:44:38 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Chainmail

Get stuffed Cm...plenty of Win lovers up here...i have several


58 posted on 05/14/2016 5:08:58 PM PDT by Revelation 911
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