Description
Item Description
Bryant Ridge Auction Company is pleased to present this antique and iconic big game lever- action rifle today for a penny start auction, this is the Winchester 1876 Rifle Third Model!
SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: Winchester
Model: 1876 Rifle Third Model
Serial: 56535
Date of Manufacture: 1885
Caliber: .40-60 WCF
Finish: Blue
Barrel Length: 28" Octagon
Optics/Sights: Dovetail Blade Front and Adjustable Leaf Rear
Stock/Grips: Smooth Hardwood Straight Grip Stock and Forearm
Action: Lever
Markings: Standard
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
If you were looking to do some big game hunting with Teddy Roosevelt out in the "Old West", this is just what you need! This very fine example of the "Third Model" Winchester Model 1876 rifle is in the large .40-60 Winchester caliber, with a 28" octagon barrel and full length magazine tube. This barrel length identifies it as the "Sporting Rifle" version of the 1876 "Centennial Model." Teddy Roosevelt's Model 1876, on the other hand, was one of those with the half octagonal barrel and half length magazine tube, and his gun was significantly more ornamented.
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 Rifle Third Model
Serial: 56535
Date of Manufacture: 1885
Caliber: .40-60 WCF
Finish: Blue
Barrel Length: 28" Octagon
Optics/Sights: Dovetail Blade Front and Adjustable Leaf Rear
Stock/Grips: Smooth Hardwood Straight Grip Stock and Forearm
Action: Lever
Markings: Standard
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
If you were looking to do some big game hunting with Teddy Roosevelt out in the "Old West", this is just what you need! This very fine example of the "Third Model" Winchester Model 1876 rifle is in the large .40-60 Winchester caliber, with a 28" octagon barrel and full length magazine tube. This barrel length identifies it as the "Sporting Rifle" version of the 1876 "Centennial Model." Teddy Roosevelt's Model 1876, on the other hand, was one of those with the half octagonal barrel and half length magazine tube, and his gun was significantly more ornamented.
The Winchester Model 1876, or Centennial Model, was a heavier-framed rifle than the Models 1866 and 1873, the "Guns that Won the West." The new design was 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 was never commercially produced by Winchester.
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), versions in .40-60 Winchester, .45-60 Winchester and .50-95 Express followed; the '76 in the latter chambering is the only repeater known to have been in widespread use by professional buffalo hunters.
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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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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