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The Winchester rifle tends generally to refer to all models with lever action made by the American company Winchester Repeating Arms Company, being the Winchester models 1873 and Winchester 1894 the most famous. Podujo a total of nine different models. Say Winchester i.e. repeating rifle, Since his widely made him, the quintessential repeating rifle.

Created in 1866, It became the rifle for excellence in the second half of the 19th century, These rifles are characterized because the shooter can make shots without reloading, ejecting the cartridge used, replacing him with a new one, by means of a lever incorporated into the body of the rifle. This model was produced at the initiative of Oliver Winchester, President of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, based on an improved copy of the rifle Henry, that produced in other companies of its property.

Thanks to the Western, It is known as “the gun that won the West”. Although this is not entirely accurate, post that was introduced during the last phase of the Indian wars, Although it was a determining factor, post that gave a great superiority in armament to the settlers against the indigenous people. However thanks to Hollywood cinema (John Ford and John Wayne), with works such as the diligence or desert and Centaurs to the spaghetti western (Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood), with works such as by a handful of dollars and the good, the bad and the ugly became the symbol of the cowboys (jeans).

Despite the fact that the conflict that marked the triumph of repeating rifles, was the American civil war (1861-1865), the Winchester rifle did not participate in it by not have been still manufactured.

It was a weapon used in the cavalry corps, Although it was a great success in the civil market, some of their models widely used by hunters, in particular by professional hunters of bison.

He had a very important role in conflicts in which it is used, They include, the war of the Pacific (Chile was faced with Peru and Bolivia), in the pacification of Araucania (Chile), the conquest of the desert (Argentina), the Mexican Revolution (Mexico) and World War I.

It was in use until World War I, When the appearance of rifles of repetition with mechanism of bolt and comb charger, relegated to lever rifles.  Leaving discontinued the original models in the year 1932.

And 1964 is considered that there was the end of the “true” Winchester, as a result of a redesign of their weapons, This eventually led to a separation and sale of the company into divisions, while maintaining the original only the part that was profitable, for the manufacture of ammunition. Therefore the time pre-64 rifles reached higher prices than previous models.

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