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In 1919, the Model 1903 moniker was shortened to Model 03, and following a partial redesign in the 1930s, was renamed the Model 63. In addition to other changes, the model fired the .22 Long Rifle cartridge. This cartridge was more popular than the .22 Winchester Automatic cartridge, and was demanded by customers.
The Winchester 1300 shotgun was first introduced in around 1981, when the US Repeating Arms Company (USRAC) took over production of the 'Winchester' brand guns from the Olin / Winchester corporation. Model 9410 (2001) lever-action .410-bore shotgun (Model 94 variant)
Winchester Model 1885; Winchester Model 1886; Winchester Model 1887/1901; Winchester Model 1890; Winchester Model 1892; Winchester Model 1894; Winchester Model 1895; Winchester Model 1897; Winchester Model 1900; Winchester Model 1903; Winchester Model 1905; Winchester Model 1906; Winchester Model 1907; Winchester Model 1910; Winchester Model ...
The race to produce the first commercial self-loading rifle brought forth the .22 rimfire Winchester Model 1903 and later centerfire Model 1905, Model 1907, and Model 1910 rifles. Winchester engineers, after ten years of work, designed the Model 1911 to circumvent Browning's self-loading shotgun patents, prepared by the company's very own ...
Model 21, double-barreled shotgun; Model 51, "Imperial" bolt-action sporting rifle; Model 52 bolt-action smallbore match rifle; Model 54 bolt-action hunting rifle (which evolved into the renowned Model 70). From beginning employment with Winchester in November 1885 to his death in 1934, Johnson was named on 124 patents assigned to the company.
The .22 Winchester Automatic (also known as the .22 Winchester Auto and occasionally .22 Win Auto) is a .22 in (5.6 mm) American rimfire rifle cartridge.. Introduced for the Winchester Model 1903 semiautomatic rifle, [1] the .22 Win Auto was never used in any other firearm. [1]
The company’s main plant was turned over to war work for most of 1918, making parts for machine guns, gas masks and Colt .45 automatics under subcontract from Winchester.
Plans were put into place to start production of modified Springfields, which became the US Rifle, Cal. .30, Model of M1903, Mark I. The Army placed orders for 133,450 devices and 800,000,000 cartridges for the 1919 Spring Offensive .