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To: w1n1

The 1886 was Browning’s first lever action. That loading sounds a bit much tho. The .348 Winchester would do just fine for me.


6 posted on 06/05/2019 5:37:23 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

“The 1886 was Browning’s first lever action...”

Winchester’s M1886 was the first lever-action repeater designed by John M Browning to enjoy mass production.

Winchester’s M1885 single-shot was the first lever-action John M Browning designed, to see mass production.

Winchester’s M1892, designed by John M Browning, was based on the M1886 - smaller, simplified. It’s widely described as Winchester’s first million-seller: slightly more than 1,000,000 were made before production stopped in the 1930s. But it wasn’t the first: that honor belongs to Winchester’s M1894, which introduced smokeless powder to the sporting rifle market. Serial number 1,000,000 came out of Winchester’s factory in 1927.


24 posted on 06/05/2019 9:31:53 PM PDT by schurmann
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