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Thanks Bert – that’s the first time I’ve ever seen in print from Winchester that the M71 could be special ordered in .33. They make it sound like only a 20 inch version could be ordered in .33? Do all the known M71 .33’s have 20 inch barrels?
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Bert H. said
Bill,
I encourage you to read my article discussing the Model 71 – Summer 2021 (winchestercollector.org)
Attached is a scanned copy of Winchester’s 1938 Salesman Catalog;
Bert
Bert, Outstanding. I read and abstracted your more recent article on the 71 but haven’t seen the earlier one you cite. I’ll certainly read it. If I had to discard every other Winchester I own, the 71 is the one I’d keep. It’s always seemed to me to be the summation of everything a Winchester lever action hunting rifle should be. I envy you your catalog library. Thanks, Bill
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
steve004 said
Thanks Bert – that’s the first time I’ve ever seen in print from Winchester that the M71 could be special ordered in .33. They make it sound like only a 20 inch version could be ordered in .33? Do all the known M71 .33’s have 20 inch barrels?
Steve,
That was simply poor sentence structure in the catalog. What it really means is that a Model 71 with a 20-inch barrel could be ordered, or a rifle in 33 WCF could be ordered. All (5) of the 33 WCF Model 71 rifles I have documented have a 24-inch barrel.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
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