Such was the case of what became known as the Model 1886 Winchester. Twenty-five years earlier the world was introduced to the lever-action repeating rifle. The first examples were chambered for ...

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company’s Model 1866 was ... Model 1866 patent The Winchester rifle’s next big jump came in 1886. Up until then, all Winchesters used a toggle-link action.

Winchester Repeating Firearms paid Browning $15,000–the same amount he had previously received for his Model 1886 and 1892 patents–for exclusive rights to manufacture the Model 94. That was a ...

SAGLE, Idaho — Tim Personius wants to know how an old Winchester rifle ended up in Lake Pend Oreille off Sourdough Point. Tim Personius found the old rifle in mid-July while he was checking his ...