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    GUN TEST SOMETHING SPECIAL

    Jan 21, 2021 4 minutes

    Like many of you, I love shooting BB-firing blowbacks, but there’s a place in my heart for CO2-powered revolvers, and that place only gets bigger when I find out that they shoot .177 (4.5mm) pellets from a rifled barrel, rather than ball bearings from a smoothbore. Enter the Winchester 4.5 Special, a meaty handgun inspired by the old school stainless steel revolvers of the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

    Winchester is a company that’s best known for its lever-action repeating rifles, although it did make a few handguns, including an odd single-shot bolt-action pistol and a few revolver prototypes. Nevertheless, the gun we have here is not based on any Winchester

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