The model 94 was the cream of the crop. I am fortunate to have my Great Grandfather’s that he bought new.
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No mention in this article about his bat$#it crazy wife - the one who built the Winchester house in San Jose.
Circa 2000 I purchased a Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in 30.06. Fancy model.
A beautiful piece.
Shoots .72in at 100yds out of the box with a perfect trigger.
It’s the finest rifle I have ever owned, whomever made it.
Some years back, I got a smoking deal on a 94 Winchester rifle (not the carbine) with an octagonal barrel in 38-55. When the wife found out I had spent the vacation money, you know what hit the fan. Had to sell it.
Since then, I have reached puberty and, if necessary, say “yes dear” and do whatever I want.
“...the all-new brass cased .44 caliber cartridge...” [original article, second paragraph]
Not sure who writes these pieces, but ammodotcom fact-checkers ought to complete their education before being turned loose on text.
Rimfire cartridges hit the US commercial market in 1857. The first offered was 22 Short; cartridge material was copper, not brass. Early manufacturing was plagued with metallurgy problems; the biggest hurdle was producing a cartridge case tough enough to handle the pressure, while staying soft enough to be pinched by the blow of the firing pin, igniting the priming compound.
Brass as a case material remained problematic until the late 1870s, when British inventors perfected the heat-treatment and deep-draw techniques required to make high-pressure centerfire cases possible.
Rimfire rounds had copper cases for some years beyond that.
What the story leaves out — and what the modern incarnation of Henry Repeating Arms Company would rather you didn’t know — is that BT Henry was a sleazeball. He waited until Oliver Winchester was in Europe to file his petition, thinking he could get the deal struck before Winchester could be warned what he was up to and get back to America.
But he wasn’t as shrewd as he believed. He failed.
“...collaboration with John Browning brought about much success with a host of shotguns, including the still produced Model 1885...” [original article, fourth paragraph]
More technical/nomenclature errors.
The M1885 was the first arm Winchester produced to any design by John M Browning, but it was a rifle. It’s an interpretation to describe four models - M1887, M1893, M1897, M1901 - as a “host of shotguns,” but those were the only smoothbore models JMB sold to Winchester, of only two basic designs at that. Perhaps the author was thinking in terms of production totals and longevity: the M1897 was produced into the 1950s, with over 1,000,000 made. Many are still in daily use.