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Winchester 1873 Rifle - .32-20 WCF - Octagon Barrel - original and untouched
Guns International #: 100822025 Seller's Inventory #:
Category: Winchester Rifles - Model 1873 - Antique Revolvers - Cartridge
Seller's Information
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Seller: greatguns01
Member Since: 7/11/14
State: Colorado
Country: United States
Number of Active Listings: 0
Total Number of Listings: 34
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
Payment Types Accepted: Personal Check, Bank Check, Money Order, Other Options
Description:
This rifle was manufactured and sold in 1890 - still an unsettled time in the early American west. As they famously say - "If this rifle could speak!" Someone put their inititals P and D on the right side of the buttstock - must have been pretty spontaneous need by a lot of people to do somethjing like that just to avoid confusion.... What ever the reason this happened very early in the life of this interesting antque rifle. Better photos to be posted shortly...
$1375 + 2-day insured shipping.
Background..
.....Beginning in 1889, many reservation tribes were gripped by the “Ghost Dance,” a spiritual movement that spoke of a messiah who would bury the white man’s world under a layer of soil and allow the Indians to return to their old ways. Sitting Bull had been at the forefront of preserving the Lakota’s traditional culture and it wasn’t long before authorities became convinced he might use the Ghost Dance movement to foment a resistance or lead a breakout from the reservation. On the morning of December 15, 1890, reservation agent James McLaughlin dispatched a party of Lakota policemen to arrest Sitting Bull and bring him in for questioning. The men succeeded in dragging the 59-year-old from his cabin, but the commotion caused a large group of his followers to converge on the scene. One of the Ghost Dancers fired a shot at the policemen, setting off a brief gun battle. In the confusion that followed, more than a dozen people were killed including Sitting Bull, who was shot in the head and chest.. This rifle was alive and in action when this event occurred..
SOLD
Antique: Yes