A.V.A Winchester M1887

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Date: Sunday, 01 September 13, 9:21 AM | Message # 1

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The Winchester Model 1887 and Winchester Model 1901 were lever-action shotguns originally designed by famed American gun designer John
Browning and produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company during
the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Model 1887 was the first truly successful repeating shotgun. Its
lever-action design was chosen at the behest of the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company, best known at the time as manufacturers of lever-action
firearms such as the Winchester model 1873. Designer John Browning
suggested that a pump-action would be much more appropriate for a
repeating shotgun, but Winchester management's position was that, at the
time, the company was known as a "lever-action firearm company", and
felt that their new shotgun must also be a lever-action for reasons of
brand recognition. Browning responded by designing a breech-loading,
rolling block lever-action. To Winchester's credit, however, they later
introduced a Browning designed pump-action shotgun known as the Model
1893 (an early production version of the model 1897), after the
introduction of smokeless powder.
Shotgun shells at the time used black powder as a propellant, and so the Model 1887 shotgun was designed and
chambered for less powerful black powder shotshells. Both 10 and
12-gauge models were offered in the Model 1887. It was soon realized
that the action on the M1887 was not strong enough to handle early smokeless powder
shotshells, and so a redesign resulted in the stronger Winchester Model
1901, 10-gauge only, to handle the advent of the more powerful
smokeless powder. A 12-gauge chambering was not offered, as Winchester
did not want the Model 1901 to compete with their successful 12-gauge
Model 1897 pump-action shotgun. Other distinguishing characteristics of
the Model 1901 are:
a two piece leverthe Winchester trademark stamp was moved to the upper tang, behind the hammerserial numbers between 64,856 and 79,455Although a technically sound gun design, the market for lever-action shotguns waned considerably, as John Browning had predicted, after the
introduction of the Winchester 1897 and other contemporary pump-action
shotguns. Model 1887 production totaled 64,855 units between 1887 and
1901. Between 1901 and 1920, an additional 14,600 Model 1901 shotguns
were manufactured before the Model 1887/1901 product line was
discontinued. Serial numbers for the Model 1901 started where the serial
numbers of the Model 1887 left off at 64,856 and ran through number
79,455. Thus, only 14,600 Model 1901s were produced indicating the
declining demand for the lever action design.

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Message edited by koktau - Tuesday, 03 September 13, 6:03 PM