WINCHESTER 1873 LEVER-ACTION
The Model 1873 lever-action rifle was one of the most prosperous Winchester rifles of its day, though to be fair, it didn’t have an overwhelming amount of competition. Even today, the Model 1873 is known as “the gun that won the West,” and likely forever will be.
Manufactured between 1873 and 1923, and originally chambered for the .44-40 cartridge, the Model 1873 was later produced in .38-40 and .32-20. Not surprisingly, each of those cartridges also became prevalent handgun cartridges, thus allowing frontiersmen, cowboys and every other Great Plains and Rocky
