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Article: Setting the standard: Winchester's Model 1892 perfected the pistol-caliber lever action.
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- Guns Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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My first article upon signing up with GUNS was a piece on my all time favorite Winchester lever gun--the Model 1873. Now I'm going to tell you why the Model 1892 Winchester was better. Am I contradicting myself? No way. There's a big difference between favorite and better!
The Winchester Model 1892 was lighter, stronger, faster and more reliable. During the Model 1873's 1/2-century production span (1873 to 1923), about three quarters of a million guns were sold. In a similar production life (1892 to 1941) about one million Model 1892s were made, so for every three 1873s, there were four 1892s. Perhaps their plentitude accounts for Hollywood using so many in the ...