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Bob

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:54:37 +0000 James W on GUNBROKER https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/gunbroker-1/#p182858 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/gunbroker-1/#p182858 I have four ways to get on the internet with different computers, phone and tablet. I think just on my tablet- sometimes Gunbroker bans me for some reason. I think Gunbroker senses some computer addresses and just bans them for the heck of it. Sometimes I delete all of my search data to clean up my space and they let me back on again.

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:05:33 +0000 Anthony on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182857 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182857

1873man said
I paid for the rush delivery to Gun List and it was published in Wisconsin so I figure I would get it first but I would call on a gun the day I got it, the seller said "I sold it yesterday"
Bob
  

HAHAHA!

Bob,

I'm not laughing at you, but at myself, because years ago,  I thought, "If I would pay the extra for it, maybe I could get a shot at some of these I kept missing on"! LOL! You weren't alone in you're thinking, and I am a couple states south of you.LaughLaughLaugh

Tony

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:47:33 +0000 James W on Post Cody Observation.... https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/post-cody-observation/page-4/#p182855 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/post-cody-observation/page-4/#p182855 I was at that show in Wilmington where they had that discharge. According to the time they said it happened, I had just left to go home about 10 minutes before it happened. About 35 years ago I was at a Bill Goodman's show in Dayton, Ohio and a woman put a .25 caliber round in a little automatic and fired it off. She told the police afterward,  she was trying to figure out how the gun worked. There was a guy sitting across the room at a table with his chair tilted back against the wall and the bullet went into the wall about 2 feet over his head. He told me that was the second gun show he had been to where someone discharged a gun and a bullet went into the wall close to where he was sitting.

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:57:45 +0000 1873man on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182847 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182847 I paid for the rush delivery to Gun List and it was published in Wisconsin so I figure I would get it first but I would call on a gun the day I got it, the seller said "I sold it yesterday"

Bob

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:24:54 +0000 steve004 on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182845 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182845

TR said
   Go back 30 plus years, before the internet when you bought a gun sight unseen from just a description in Gun List or Shotgun News. That description would have lead to a huge disappointment when you opened the box. The pictures in this case show the buyer what the description does not.
  Every gun has value and in this case not much. T/R 
  

And the descriptions were often not much given you paid per word.

And remember when the shotgun news was around $20 or $25 per year but you could pay a couple hundred extra per year and they sent it out a few days earlier?

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:55:14 +0000 TR on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182843 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182843    Go back 30 plus years, before the internet when you bought a gun sight unseen from just a description in Gun List or Shotgun News. That description would have lead to a huge disappointment when you opened the box. The pictures in this case show the buyer what the description does not.

  Every gun has value and in this case not much. T/R 

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:09:49 +0000 TXGunNut on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182842 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182842 Appears to be another case of taking a Winchester with character but very little condition and after no small amount of effort with a buffing wheel and sandpaper transforming it into something no serious collector will be interested in. Might work as a wall hanger as long as the lighting isn't so good. 

 

 

Mike

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:31:14 +0000 steve004 on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182841 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182841 From a distance, it really doesn't look too bad.  Quite a distance.

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:37:42 +0000 Maverick on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182840 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182840 A very bad re=blue job on that one with a replacement dust cover and rear sight. Bad attempt at artificially aging it as well.

Its now worthless in my opinion. I suppose you could salvage the interior parts. I doubt it will even make a good shooter.

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:24:06 +0000 Anthony on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182835 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182835

Henry Mero said
It has been sanded so bad the cal. stamp has dissappeared, it may be a 38 or????, definetly a bigger hole than a .33
  

1873man said
Caliber stamp polished so far he could not read it anymore. The 3 and 8 are very similar and can be confused.
Bob
  

I knew that you two gents, along with a few others, would pick up on the large hole in the muzzle as pic # 21 shows, and the caliber stamp, polished off so bad, the Lister not knowing much about the M-1873, assumed it's in the .33 caliber, which it plainly is not!

 

Tony

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:37:00 +0000 1873man on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182817 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182817 Caliber stamp polished so far he could not read it anymore. The 3 and 8 are very similar and can be confused.

Bob

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Zebulon on GUNBROKER https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/gunbroker-1/#p182816 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/gunbroker-1/#p182816 When it comes to communication problems among computers, I'm never inclined to disregard demonic possession. I have had equal luck with technicians and exorcists.

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:56:10 +0000 Henry Mero on Distorted M-1873 https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182814 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/distorted-1873/#p182814 It has been sanded so bad the cal. stamp has dissappeared, it may be a 38 or????, definetly a bigger hole than a .33

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:50:05 +0000 Henry Mero on GUNBROKER https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/gunbroker-1/#p182813 General Discussions & Questions https://winchestercollector.org/forum/general-discussions-questions/gunbroker-1/#p182813 Correct Bill, I said "blocked", not banned, and I did get back on after about 5 hours. I know it wasn't the seller because I've bought guns from Him before, plus I did call Him, He told Me I didn't  want that one anyways, so They did do Me a favor. But Your other theory just don't hold waterWink.

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