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In 2008 Winchester produced a pair of Theodore Roosevelt commemorative rifles. [19] In 2009 an additional pair of rifles was offered commemorating Roosevelt's African Safari in 1909 after leaving office. [20] Both the Browning and new Winchester rifles are made in Japan by Miroku. The Winchesters, however, differ from the original design in ...
The .405 Winchester / 10.45x65mmR (.405 WCF) is a rimmed centerfire rifle cartridge introduced in 1904 for the Winchester 1895 lever-action rifle. [4] It remains to this day one of the most powerful rimmed cartridges designed specifically for lever-action rifles; the only modern lever action cartridges that exceed its performance are the .50 Alaskan, .450 Alaskan, .475 Turnbull, .348 Turnbull ...
Teddy Roosevelt with his engraved Model 1876. The Winchester Model 1876, or Centennial Model, was a heavier-framed rifle than the Models 1866 and 1873, chambered for full-powered centerfire rifle cartridges suitable for big-game hunting, rather than the handgun-sized rimfire and centerfire rounds of its predecessors. [31]
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) Super-X Model 1 (1974) semi-automatic shotgun
The M1895 Lee Navy was a straight-pull magazine rifle adopted in limited numbers by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in 1895 as a first-line infantry rifle. [3] [4] The Navy's official designation for the Lee Straight-Pull rifle was the "Lee Rifle, Model of 1895, caliber 6-mm" [3] but the weapon is also largely known by other names, such as the "Winchester-Lee rifle", "Lee Model 1895", "6mm Lee ...
The .38-56 Winchester Center Fire / 9.59x53mmR or .38-56 Winchester cartridge was introduced in 1887 by Winchester for the Winchester Model 1886, [3] and was also used in the Marlin Model of 1895. Project and history
Impersonator Joe Wiegand, portraying 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, speaks with tour guide Cindy Conner during a visit to the Conrad Mansion in Kalispell on Wednesday, April 24. (Casey ...
Theodore Roosevelt is the only American president to be honored on a Canal Zone postage stamp. [66] The 22-cent Roosevelt commemorative stamp was issued on May 22, 1986, as part of a series of stamps honoring U.S. presidents, first issued during AMERIPEX '86, the international philatelic show held in Rosemont, Illinois. Artist Jerry Dadds of ...