Winchester Model 1876 45-60 W.C.F. Lever Action Rifle. DOM 1885. Good Original Condition
Description:
Winchester Model 1876 45-60 W.C.F. Lever Action Rifle.
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Serial #55609.
DOM 1885. Original.
Great, Historical American Sporting Rifle. Unique Etchings In Stock, Possibly Indicating Game Kills.
SPECIFICATIONS
- MAKE: WINCHESTER
- MODEL: 1876
- CALIBER: 45-60 W.C.F.
- BARREL: 28 INCH OCTAGONAL BLUE FINISH
- BLADE FRONT SIGHT, ADJUSTABLE FOLDING LADDER REAR
- WEIGHT: 9LBS 13OZ'S
- UPPER TANG MARKED 'MODEL 1876'
- THERE IS A CRACK IN THE WALNUT BUTT STOCK
- CONDITION IS GOOD. SOME MINOR SCATTERED DENT, DINGS, AND SCRATCHES
The Winchester Model 1876,
or Centennial Model, was a heavier-framed rifle than the Models 1866 and 1873, chambered for full-powered centerfire rifle cartridges suitable for big-game hunting, rather than the handgun-size rimfire and centerfire rounds of its predecessors. While similar in design to the 1873, the 1876 was actually based on a prototype 1868 lever-action rifle that was never commercially produced by Winchester.
Introduced to celebrate the American Centennial Exposition, the Model 1876 earned a reputation as a durable and powerful hunting rifle. Four versions were produced: a 22-inch (56 cm) barrel Carbine, a 26-inch (66 cm) barrel Express Rifle with a half-length magazine, a 28-inch (71 cm) barrel Sporting Rifle, and a 32-inch (81 cm) barrel Musket. Standard rifles had a blued finish while deluxe models were casehardened. Collectors identify a first model with no dust cover, a second model with a dust cover rail fastened by a screw, and a third model with an integral dust cover. Total production was 63,871 including 54 One of One Thousand Model 1876s and only seven of the One of One Hundred grade.
Originally chambered for the new .45-75 Winchester Centennial cartridge (designed to replicate the .45-70 Gov't ballistics in a shorter case), versions in .40-60 Winchester, .45-60 Winchester and .50-95 Express followed; the '76 in the latter chambering is the only repeater known to have been used in any numbers by the professional buffalo hunters.[7] The Canadian North-West Mounted Police used the '76 in .45-75 as a standard long arm for many years with 750 rifles purchased for the force in 1883; the Mountie-model '76 carbine was also issued to the Texas Rangers. Theodore Roosevelt used an engraved, pistol-gripped half-magazine '76 during his early hunting expeditions in the West and praised it. A '76 was also found in the possession of Apache warrior Geronimo after his surrender in 1886.
The Model 1876 toggle-link action receiver was too short to handle popular big game cartridges including the .45-70; and production ceased in 1897 as big-game hunters preferred the smoother Model 1886 action chambered for longer and more powerful cartridges.
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