Not only can it help determine when and where a particular model was made, but it also helps ensure that you are legally in possession of a genuine Winchester product.
The Restoration of an FN model 1906 part 2.The Restoration of an FN model 1906 part 1.I'm going to have to find a less than perfect example, in need of resurrection, so I can show you what I mean, without offending the purists (including me)! An opportunity missed by the designers at Winchester, but one now offered to someone looking to put a subtle personal stamp on their rifle. For that same reason, if you look at it right, the rounded later version looks like there is a piece (or at least an opportunity) missing! I suggest that a slight modification to the contour of the inside arc of the lever right at the end would make all the difference, and I can see it as clear as day in my mind's eye.
It just makes perfect sense from the standpoint of line and flow and form. The tail of that lever is a perfect extension of the base of the grip area of the stock, as it comes forward from the butt. I know what you are saying about the early lever tail extension looking a little odd, but work with me here for a moment. I would definitely only be interested in a lever action model, as it mimics the only long gun I previously coveted - the Winchester 94, of course. HOLY SHIRT that is one handsome long gun! I say dang it because my very limited want list might have just gotten longer! Thank you, but dang it! DANG IT! I don't really have much of an interest in nor a hankering for rifles, but. The plastic butt plates were cast in a wood tone, rather than the standard black. The walnut stocked deluxe models had "basket weave" checkering that included oak leaves. Some standard models also had jeweled bolts.Įarly production rifles had a different lever that had an extra piece of metal that extended to the end of the pistol grip, they looked to be unfinished in my opinion. The pictures above shows this, and my research suggests that the early models had plain stocks without the checkering and flutes. Standard models used birch wood stocks, some of which had the white line spacer with pressed in checkering and flutes in the comb. Perhaps Winchester learned their lesson and went back to better materials. It is also the opposite direction of what Winchester did in 1964 with the models 94 and 70. 22 rifles is that they start with metal parts and gradually switch out parts to plastic (the Ruger 10/22 comes to mind), but with the Winchester 200 series, the evolution was exactly the opposite.
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