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Bob,
Serial # 389268B
Standard sporting rifle:
26″ round barrel
38-40 cal.
Trapdoor butt.
Erin
Thanks Erin,
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Bob,
SN 164176A
Sporter
38-40
24″ octagon barrel
full length magazine
Plain trigger
Straight stock
Crescent butt plate w/trap door
Have Cody letter- letters completely
no modifications
Blued entirely
Dave
Dave,
Thanks for the information.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Bob, As you can see I left off a number and also thought the number one was a slash. Excuse the shakey pictures, I hope from the pic you can tell what model it is.
Ed,
Did you determine what the barrel length is?
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Ed,
Thanks for your effort. I added to the survey. Its a third model. You can tell from the rail on the top of the receiver is part of the receiver. 2nd models the rail is screwed to the receiver and first models does not have the rail.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Bob thanks for having some patience with me on this. These lever guns are somewhat new to me. A lot of models with many variations.
Ed
Ed,
Do you have Madis’s The Winchester Book? That was the first book I started with. It my not be 100% correct but it covers a lot of models and will get you the big picture.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Bob, my interest is mainly in drop lock rifles. I have picked up 3 Winchester lever guns in the past couple of years, which as sparked my interest in them.
Thanks for the reference on the Winchester lever guns, I will keep my eyes open for a copy.
Ed
1873 winchester SN 148996 A, 38 cal., 24″ round barrel, full magazine with slotted cap, crescent butt, blue finish (almost brown now), winchester no. 21 front sight, Winchester sporting rear sight with serrated edges. See attached photos.
Thanks for your gun information. Its added.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
First post, we inherited my wife’s grandfather’s 1873. According to the letter from Cody it was produced and shipped in June 1900, and was ordered as a carbine with a rifle stock in 44wcf. Serial is 550014. I would love to know where it was sold originally as it’s plausible it’s been in my wife’s family since new. Unfortunately anyone in the family who would have known where it came from have passed on. Order number is 62431 on June 25, 1900, and if it was ordered by her family it would probably have gone to a shop in the southwest as her family originally lived in and around Bisbee AZ and El Paso Tx.
Mechanically it appears to be all there. The bore is bright with clean rifling, the action is gummy but pretty smooth, and I have not found any heavy rust or serious wear except for the area around the saddle ring and the “Model 1873” script has started to be worn through on the tang in a way that looks like it was worn from handling. I believe the rear sight leaf is damaged as it’s my impression that the sight leaf should be perpendicular to the ladder and barrel, not bent at a severe angle.
There is no records as to shipping destination in the early 73’s. The last of them did show where they went so the Cody letter is all the information that will be available. I do have rifle stock on carbines in my survey but not many.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
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