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March 23, 2010
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Recently while checking out a buy sell site, a fellow there was looking for dies for a Winchester Model 64 26 inch barrel .219 Zipper rifle he had just bought.Nothing odd about that,but he said the rifle had an octagon barrel.First I had heard of an octagon barrel on a Model 64..Any one know any thing about octagon barrels on Model 64 rifles?Like how long they were made,what calibres they were made in or if perhaps the rifle has a fake octagon barrel added to it?
April 26, 2015
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This link from a suspiciously-shady group sums it up nicely:
https://winchestercollector.org/models/model-64/
I’ve never seen an octagon barrel on a 1930s and later Winchester, especially a 64.
March 23, 2010
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Interesting where it says,”Other than different rear sight arrangements,very little else was offered for the Model 64″.Wonder what these ,”Very little else things” were?
I had an older hunter friend of mine ,who has since passed on,who purchased a Model 64 Deluxe new and it had a flat top rear sight and he always referred to his rifle as,The flat top Model 64.”
Until today, I have never heard of an octagon barrel Model 64.Thinking it is probably a faked up barrel,but sometimes with Winchester they did some odd things to their rifles.
April 15, 2005
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I wrote the piece that Bruce posted the link to. It was also in the article that I wrote & published on the Model 64 several years ago.
Winchester never manufactured an octagon barrel for the Model 64 (or its predecessor, the Model 55).
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
