Description
Item Description
Bryant Ridge Auction Company is pleased to present this historic big game lever-action rifle today for a penny start auction; this is the Winchester 1876 Third Model!
Turnbull Restoration is a well-known company specializing in Master Restorations and known around the world for their color case hardening. This particular rifle, made in 1884 and chambered for .40-60 WCF, has been restored by the master gunsmiths at the Turnbull custom shop. The company’s master gunsmiths labored on this firearm to include exquisitely restoring all original receiver and barrel markings, blueing the barrel and magazine tube, along with a number of small parts and color case hardening the receiver, hammer, lever, buttplate, and forend cap.
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Turnbull Restoration is a well-known company specializing in Master Restorations and known around the world for their color case hardening. This particular rifle, made in 1884 and chambered for .40-60 WCF, has been restored by the master gunsmiths at the Turnbull custom shop. The company’s master gunsmiths labored on this firearm to include exquisitely restoring all original receiver and barrel markings, blueing the barrel and magazine tube, along with a number of small parts and color case hardening the receiver, hammer, lever, buttplate, and forend cap.
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SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: Winchester
Model: 1876 Third Model
Serial: 51246
Date of Manufacture: 1884
Caliber: .40-60 WCF
Finish: Blue Barrel with Color Case Hardened Receiver, Lever, Hammer, Dust Cover, Buttplate and Forend Cap
Barrel Length: 24" Octagon
Optics/Sights: Dovetail Blade Front with Graduated Ladder Style Rear
Stock/Grips: Smooth Straight Grip Walnut Stock and Forearm
Action: Lever
Markings: Standard
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
Condition:
This example is in IMMACULATE condition and simply Stunning to see.
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3-day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
Model: 1876 Third Model
Serial: 51246
Date of Manufacture: 1884
Caliber: .40-60 WCF
Finish: Blue Barrel with Color Case Hardened Receiver, Lever, Hammer, Dust Cover, Buttplate and Forend Cap
Barrel Length: 24" Octagon
Optics/Sights: Dovetail Blade Front with Graduated Ladder Style Rear
Stock/Grips: Smooth Straight Grip Walnut Stock and Forearm
Action: Lever
Markings: Standard
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
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. While similar in design to the 1873, the 1876 was actually based on a prototype 1868 lever-action rifle that Winchester never produced commercially. Introduced to celebrate the American Centennial Exposition, the Model 1876 earned a reputation as a durable and powerful hunting rifle. Four versions were produced: a 22-inch barrel Carbine, a 26-inch barrel Express Rifle with a half-length magazine, a 28-inch barrel Sporting Rifle, and a 32-inch barrel Musket. Standard rifles had a blued finish while deluxe models were casehardened. Collectors identify a first model with no dust cover, a second model with a dust cover rail fastened by a screw, and a third model with an integral dust cover. Total production was 63,871, including 54 One of One Thousand Model 1876s and only seven of the One of One Hundred grade.
Originally chambered for the new .45-75 Winchester Centennial cartridge (designed to replicate the .45-70 ballistics in a shorter case), the Model 1876 also had versions in .40-60 Winchester, .45-60 Winchester, and .50-95 Express; the '76 in the latter chambering is the only repeater known to have been in widespread use by professional buffalo hunters. The Canadian North-West Mounted Police used the '76 in .45-75 as a standard long arm for many years with 750 rifles purchased for the force in 1883; the Mountie-model '76 carbine was also issued to the Texas Rangers. Theodore Roosevelt used an engraved, pistol-gripped half-magazine '76 during his early hunting expeditions in the West and praised it. A '76 was also found in the possession of Apache warrior Geronimo after his surrender in 1886.
The Model 1876 toggle-link action receiver was too short to handle popular big-game cartridges, including the .45-70, and production ceased in 1897, as big-game hunters preferred the smoother Model 1886 action chambered for longer and more powerful cartridges.
Condition:
This example is in IMMACULATE condition and simply Stunning to see.
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3-day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
Shipping Details
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Return Policy
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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