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What's going on with the plant closure section? Should things like this just be deleted? -- Squirrelfisher 20:29, 09 Dec 2006 (EST)
agh at least you can read this now -- im a little worred about the source however -- Davelane 23:24, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
(Can we decide what this article is about? It would help to organize it. Is it only about Winchester lever-action rifles, or does it include their other rifles as well? Why not just write about the company and not rifle?)
This article needs some serious work. I propose creating a Winchester Repeating Arms Company article for the company history, and using this or other articles to describe the guns. -- Scott Burley 09:46, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
I wanted to clean it up, but this article is so badly written, I have no idea how to do it. I could try to translate the German article, but since German is not my native language (nor is English, but my English is much better than my German) it might be hard. -- Sander 17:18, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
ok, I see at least two articles in this document. One is on the acutal "Winchester Rifle" family. The other is on the corporate history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Therefore, for the sake of organization, I'm going to try splitting the two articles.
ok, the article is now split. Part of it remains here, and other half was moved to Winchester Repeating Arms Company. It still feels like its missing a lot of information though. -- Moki80 20:47, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I've added quite a bit, but it could use a lot more work. I tried to at least give a brief overview of the main rifle types and general history of the company. The existing article seemed to end with the Model 1873.
"Millions of '92's have been made, and although Winchester phased them out several decades ago, they are still being made under the Puma label by an Italian arms maker."
The Puma is made by the Brazilian company Amadeo Rossi: http://www.rossi.com.br/
Legacy Sports used the Puma brandname on 1892 clones made by Amadeo Rossi; the Puma Brand rifles sold by Legacy today are made by Chiappa in Italy. Naaman Brown ( talk) 01:40, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
"In the movie Babel, two boys test the range of a Winchester rifle in the Moroccan desert, and in an instant, the lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide."
Seriously, does that sound a little off to anyone else? -- 72.155.176.252 21:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
I deleted this:
While true, it's not about Winchester. If anybody thinks it's worth saving, move it to the Marlin page. -- The Rifleman 23:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
I've embarked upon an extensive re-writing of this article, which I'm sure you can agree was in dire need of attention. I'm not a Winchester firearms historian, however, so if anyone with more knowledge on the subject wants to help out, that would be muchly appreciated! -- Commander Zulu 07:36, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
I've tweaked it a bit, especially in the bolt-action section. US designers like James Parris Lee (of the Winchester-Lee and Lee-Enfield) and the Springfield Armory also made major contributions to bolt-action design. And there's no particular advantage in strength in a normal (non-Weatherby) bolt over a heavy locked lever like the M1886; but the lever action is much more difficult to make and has a lot more moving parts.-- Solicitr ( talk) 23:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Added stubbish paragraph on the Model 88-- Solicitr ( talk) 18:18, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
This article and the companion article on the company repeat the erroneous statement that Olin bought winchester in 1963. Wrong- by three decades. Olin bought the bankrupt Winchester Repeating Arms Co in 1931, and president John Olin saw it through some of its best years. The '64 disaster was just another example of the pernicious MBA-itis that ruined so many great American manufacturers at the time (Fender and Gibson guitars, for example). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Solicitr ( talk • contribs) 04:18, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone object if I reorganized the bolt-action section to use the same format as that on levers? Ultimately I suppose this article should include autos and pump rifles as well- and perhaps give the shotguns their own article?-- Solicitr ( talk) 22:20, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I know there are many models that are not notable enough to deserve their own section (eg 250, 270, 1904, 320) but I think the 9422 is genuinely notable for high-quality manufacture, appropriating the Old West glamour of the historic models in a modern .22 rifle, and enduring public acceptance. Even the great 52 has not approached the acceptance of the 9422 as far as I can see. ChrisPer ( talk) 04:18, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't suppose anyone has references for production dates on the Model 9410 lever-action shotgun, do they? Everything I've found on the 'net indicates a 2001-2006 production run but I haven't managed to find a reputable cite to that effect yet. Commander Zulu ( talk) 05:48, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
theres nothing in here about the 200 series winchester rifles? does anybody know enough to write about them?
Please include details about the use of the Winchester Model 1873 rifle by the Chilean and Spanish cavalry.
Also, please include information about the employment of Winchester rifles during the War of the Pacific (1879-1884), the Mexican Revolution and World War I.
Finally, please include information about the use of Winchester rifles by Cuban and Philippine guerillas in the late 19th century. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.52.227.200 ( talk) 10:26, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
I have become the owner of a Winchester saddle ring model 1888. This is in 32-20 and was manifactured in 1917. I don't see this model in the Winchester model listings, how come? David —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.26.122.12 ( talk) 05:10, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Seriously. It uses flowery imagery, like a tourist brochure or an advertising newspaper puff-piece. It is unreferenced. And it is BS. It asserts that the '73 and Peacemaker were the 'standard tools of the west' when we are very careful to debunkthis movie-poster ahistoric nonsense. I am deleting the section. ChrisPer ( talk) 05:01, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
The first paragraph of this section is confusing regarding ammunition and the distinction between rifle and carbine. It says that all three variants used pistol ammunition, but then says the carbine was popular because it allowed users to share ammunition with their pistols. The whole article is confusing as between rifle and carbine, sometimes using "rifle" to include carbine, and sometimes distinguishing between rifle and carbine. Cyclopaedic ( talk) 13:58, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
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At this stage, the article states:
A wooden forearm in the 1866 model? really? I thought it never had one... Kintaro ( talk) 18:33, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
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Currently a sentence tacked onto the Model 1876 section reads "Former slave and first African American woman to work for the us postal service Mary Fields has also been photographed with a winchester 1876[15]" Now, it is true that the two preceding sentences refer to ownership of '76s by Teddy Roosevelt and Geronimo-- but Roosevelt was and is famous as a hunter and Geronimo as a warrior: in other words, their notability is bound up with using guns. But I can't see what "first African American woman to work for the us postal service" has to do with firearms. It would be like the Ford Motor Co. page rather arbitrarily pointing out that Wolfgang Puck once owned a Ford. Solicitr ( talk) 22:36, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
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"the gun that won the west" it didn't "won" any west — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.235.251.172 ( talk) 18:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
"The Model 1866 compelled Russians to develop a new rifle, the Mosin–Nagant, after the war." Except for 13-14 years "post-war", any decent source for this? The Winchester cartridge was then considered low-power, and multiple charges were not considered an advantage. With the exception of Vetterli, then there were almost no multi-shot rifles under the army cartridges at all. The appearance of Mosin was only provoked by the general transition of other armies to similar systems.
I have Henry's personal Winchester and believe it could clear up some things about who did what and when. It's one of four prototypes. The only one not accounted for. I would like to sell it but what is it worth. Someone at Henry Co. said they would give me $176.000.00 I need help please Someone 50.86.54.165 ( talk) 18:46, 7 May 2022 (UTC)