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November 11, 2012
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I was on the CMP Forum today and saw a picture of a 52C that had a solid bottom and was a single shot. I’m not real knowledgeable of the 52’s but I thought a solid bottom single shot was destined to be the 52D. Were there many 52 C’s made that were single shots?
October 20, 2022
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In the Winchester model 52 book by Herbert Houze, he lists three in the 94,000 range pages 185 and 186.
Ken
October 20, 2022
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Herbert Houze actually lists 10 others in the in the 94,000 range that were Olympic models, but you have to look in the model 52d section of his book.
June 1, 2023
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It’s the real deal. I saw pics of it on Rimfire Central last week.
Here are three photos:
Seewin probably knows anything worth knowing about these, but this rifle seems to anticipate the later variants of the Winchester 52 rifle.
BRP
July 3, 2020
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At one time I sold a number of breach bolt guide blocks that screwed into the underside making a “fixed” single shot. The chamber appears to have the magazine area milled out as in standard model C’s. Is it possible that this is a standard C in a D stock? Steve will “enlighten” us all soon…. 🙂 I have been wrong many times before….
Just went to CMP forums and saw the pic of the underside of the receiver… it’s a single shot. Very cool… and I was wrong again. 🙂
November 11, 2012
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That rifle pictured on the CMP website has quite a bit of the bottom of the receiver machined flat. I don’t have a D model to compare it to but on my E model, there’s not as much of the bottom machined flat, a much smaller cut out. The serial number on C rifle is about 3,000 off from what Houze reports in his book. I wonder if there was a special intent for those few flat bottom C’s but then abandoned. There doesn’t seem to be anything different about the stock that this rifle came in. Was this something Winchester was planning to do with these 10 or so rifles or was this something Winchester was going to offer to the public which quickly evolved into something else?
Does anybody know how the rifle matches changed so that there was no longer a need for a 5 or 10 shot magazine?
December 9, 2002
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Maybe Seewin will check in or you can pm him and get his knowledge here as he’s very knowledgeable on the 52’s! 
Antonio
June 19, 2009
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I too have been curious about this rifle.
The subject rifle would not be one of the 10 Olympic rifles referenced in Houze’s book. Those ten rifles along with ten M70 single shot rifles were built specifically for use by the US Olympic team competing in the 1956 Melbourne Games. They were in a narrow S/N range. The inventory of the Winchester reference collection lists 52C Olympic rifles 94004C, 94005C & 94006C. Far from the 1957 97695C of the subject.
I believe seewin had indicated in another forum that he has one of these rifles very close in S/N to the subject rifle.
As was mentioned, if anyone were to have specific knowledge of these it would seewin.
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