The Winchester rifle’s technological family tree runs through the Henry rifle, used during the Civil War, and on back to 1849, when inventor Walter Hunt patented the Volition Repeating Rifle.

But waiting in the wings was the first lever action rifle as we know it, the Henry repeater. In 1855, a shirtmaker named Oliver Winchester bought a controlling interest in the Volcanic Repeating ...

Long-range target shooting was the sport of the day by the early 1880s, and the rifle caught the attention of Thomas G. Bennett, vice president and general manager of the Winchester Repeating Arms ...

The Browning brothers succeeded by designing what was to become the most popular repeating rimfire rifle Winchester ever produced, the Model 1890 slide-action repeater, a slim, lightweight, ...

The next shot ensured that he really didn’t mind. In 1866, the New Haven Arms became Winchester Repeating Arms. They introduced an updated and improved Henry-style rifle called the Winchester Model ...

Once the U.S. Repeating Arms plant closes March 31, the only new rifles carrying the famous Winchester name will be the modern, high-end models produced in Belgium, Japan and Portugal. The older ...

According to Morgan, Utah-based Winchester Repeating Arms, 720,610 of the rifles were manufactured between 1873 and 1916. In 1882 alone, more than 25,000 of the 1873 models were made. The gun sold ...

The gun that won the West' Archaeologists traversing the Great Basin National Park in Nevada came across an interesting find: a 132-year-old Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle. The Facebook ...