Raffle will held at the Fuquay-Varina City Fair.
Original 1894 Winchester Carbine Rifle
Manufactured in 1894 – Serial #188665
Manufactured 1898
30 W.C.F
20" round barrel.
Ruffle offered by Fuquay-Varina Rotary Club, North Carolina.
All proceeds benefit civic projects in the Fuquay-Varina Community.
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Winchester Model 1894
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The Winchester Model 1894 is perhaps the best known of the Winchester repeating rifles, chambered for the newly introduced smokeless .30-30 Winchester cartridge, and later, a variety of calibres such as .25-35 WCF, .32-40 WCF, .32 Winchester Special, and the .38-55. Winchester were the first company to manufacture a rifle chambered for the new smokeless cartridges (the Model 1894 was designed by John Browning), and although delays prevented the .30-30 cartridge from appearing on the shelves until 1895, it remained the first commercially available smokeless powder round for the North American consumer market. Though initially it was too expensive for most shooters, the Model 1894 went on to become one of the best-selling hunting rifles of all time- it has the distinction of being the first sporting/hunting rifle to sell over 1 million units- and US production was not discontinued until 2006.
The name Winchester rifle is frequently used to describe any of the lever-action rifles manufactured in America by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the latter half of the 19th Century, although it is usually in reference to the Winchester Model 1873 or the Winchester Model 1894. Winchester rifles were among the earliest repeating rifles, and as such the Winchester name has become synonymous with lever-action firearms. The gun is colloquially known as "The Gun that Won the West" for its immense popularity at that time, as well as its use in fictional Westerns.
History
The idea of a repeating rifle had been the subject of many inventions since the use of firearms began, but few of them had proven to be practical, mainly because the modern brass cartridge, which made repeating arms practical, had not yet been developed.
One of the first practical repeating rifles was a design based on the highly successful Colt revolver, effectively being a version of the revolver with a rifle-length barrel and shoulder stock. Despite the success of the Colt revolver design in handguns, it was not a success as a rifle and was never widely adopted. The more successful Spencer rifles and carbines of the American Civil War were a notable step forward, but were not completely satisfactory in various respects. The ancestor of the Winchester rifles was the Volcanic rifle of Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson. It was originally manufactured by the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, which was later reorganized into the New Haven Arms Company, its largest stockholder being Oliver Winchester.
The Volcanic rifle used a form of "caseless" ammunition and had only limited success. Wesson had also designed an early form of rimfire cartridge which was subsequently perfected by Benjamin Tyler Henry. Henry also supervised the redesign of the rifle to use the new ammunition, retaining only the general form of the breech mechanism and the tubular magazine. This became the Henry rifle of 1860, which was manufactured by the New Haven Arms Company and was used in considerable numbers by certain Union Army units in the Civil War.
Development
After the war, Oliver Winchester continued to exercise control of the company, renaming it the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, and had the basic design of the Henry rifle completely modified and improved. It become the first Winchester rifle, the Winchester Model 1866. It retained the .44 Henry rimfire cartridge but had an improved magazine and, for the first time, a wooden forearm. In 1873 Winchester introduced the Model 1873, with a steel frame and the more potent .44-40 centerfire cartridge. In 1876, in a bid to compete with the powerful single shot rifles of the time, Winchester brought out the Model 1876 (Centennial Model). While it chambered cartridges with more power than the 1866 and 1873 models, the toggle link action was just not strong enough for the popular rounds used in Sharps or Remington rifles.
From 1883, John Browning worked in partnership with the Winchester, designing a series of rifles and shotguns, most notably the lever-action Winchester Model 1886, Winchester Model 1892, Winchester Model 1894, and Winchester Model 1895 rifles, along with the lever-action Winchester Model 1887 shotgun and the pump-action Winchester Model 1893 and Winchester Model 1897 shotguns. Reproductions of the 1887 and 1897 shotguns, and many of the lever-action rifles, are available today, although they are produced by other manufacturers and not from Winchester. The Model 1894 and limited editions of the Model 1895 rifles are still produced under the Winchester name, but no longer in the United States.
Winchester Repeating Rifles
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