36 | WINCHESTERCOLLECTOR.ORG • Fall 2021 small that there is no room for the Winchester trademark or the patent date. We suggest finding one or more of these interesting items to kick your rifle collection up a notch. Beginning all the way back to the Henry rifle, the company made cleaning rods. The original Henry rods were fourpiece rods made of hickory with steel connectors. Because they are made of wood and not marked, many people don’t even realize what they are. These can be found…but it won’t be easy or cheap! Many of the lever action rifles that followed the Henry rifle had four-piece steel rods stored inside the stock and accessed through the butt plate. You could also buy these takedown rods through the catalog. Sometime after 1903, Winchester introduced one-piece steel rods for their 22 rifles. And always improving on their ideas, they introduced this "Flexible Cleaning Rod for .22 Caliber Rifles" during the 1920s. Because the cleaning rod was not marked…if you don’t find it in a box, you may not realize it was made byWinchester. During the late teens and early 1920s, Winchester introduced the Model 08 shotgun cleaning rod. It was sold in the canvas case and is stamped with the Winchester trademark and the model number. Just a note…it was also included in the Junior Trapshooting Outfit, but it is not marked Winchester and does not have the model number stamped on it. The one in the Trapshooting Above: Winchester Barrel Reflectors as described in the text, with an early image from a 1887-dated WRACo catalog shown above right
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