Welcome to in the present day’s Photo of the Day! Back to our recurrently scheduled Henry/Winchester repeater story. Here we now have a Winchester 1866 Centerfire “Yellow Boy”, as they have been later referred, chambered for a centerfire cartridge. In the mid to late 1860s metallic cartridges, have been already the brand new norm however centerfire was solely starting to take maintain. Up till then, there have been so many various kinds of self-contained cartridges like pinfire, teatfire, rimfire, and so on. Today centerfire is the usual apply and within the late 1860s Winchester bought on board and modernized their Winchester 1866 to make use of the centerfire expertise and drop the Henry lineage; at the least within the type of the 44 Henry Rimfire cartridge.
“This is a solid example of a Winchester Model 1866 Lever Action Rifle that was manufactured in 1882. This rifle has the age appearance that you see with an “attic find” rifle. The Model 1866 Winchester Rifle was primarily a Henry Rifle with enhancements invented and patented by Winchester’s store superintendent Nelson King in 1866. The modified journal with the facet loading gate and new walnut forearm eradicated the first defects within the Henry rifle and created a lever motion rifle that has been related to the identify “Winchester”, and the opening of the Western frontier.”
Lot 3012: Winchester Third Model 1866 Lever Action Rifle. (n.d.). Rock Island Auction Company. . {photograph}. Retrieved January 29, 2023, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/56/3012/winchester-third-model-1866-lever-action-rifle.
