The Winchester rifle’s technological family tree runs through the Henry rifle, used during the Civil War, and on back to 1849, when inventor Walter Hunt patented the Volition Repeating Rifle.

But waiting in the wings was the first lever action rifle as we know it, the Henry repeater. In 1855, a shirtmaker named Oliver Winchester bought a controlling interest in the Volcanic Repeating ...

The Browning brothers succeeded by designing what was to become the most popular repeating rimfire rifle Winchester ever produced, the Model 1890 slide-action repeater, a slim, lightweight, ...

In becoming “The Gun That Won The West,” the Winchester ... in so doing, launched the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. into everlasting fame. Unfortunately, the Winchester ’73 had one notable ...

The next shot ensured that he really didn’t mind. In 1866, the New Haven Arms became Winchester Repeating Arms. They introduced an updated and improved Henry-style rifle called the Winchester Model ...

With barely any formal education, this determined New Englander rose to found the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, maker of one of the first repeating rifles the world had ever seen. The Winchester, ...

According to Morgan, Utah-based Winchester Repeating Arms, 720,610 of the rifles were manufactured between 1873 and 1916. In 1882 alone, more than 25,000 of the 1873 models were made. The gun sold ...

Reporting from Las Vegas — There it was, abandoned for the ages, propped up against a juniper tree in far-eastern Nevada’s Snake Mountains, a Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle: the gun ...

It was a moment frozen in time – an 1873 Winchester repeating rifle propped up against the trunk of a juniper tree exactly where its owner had left it over a hundred years ago. Eva Jensen ...