Navy Arms 1873 Rifles
Navy Arms announced they are now selling reproduction Winchester 1873 rifles. These rifles are made by Winchester Repeating Arms and finished by Turnbull Restorations.
Rifles will be made in both .45 Colt and .357 Magnum calibers. The receiver and metal furniture will be color case hardened, while the stock will be checkered walnut.
The barrel will be octagonal and available in 20″ and 24 1/4″ lengths. A gold front bead rear semi-buckhorn sights are standard. The Winchester short stroke kit will be pre-installed in these guns.
The MSRP will be $2,500. The guns are in stock and shipping.
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If you're really using it in competition you'll be smashing it down on the table, dinging the wood and scratching the finish, I think you want the cheapest finish available cause in a few years there'll be none left.
I like that they are finished up by Turnbull but these really aren't Winchester's to begin with in my opinion. They are outsourced Japanese made rifles stamped with the Winchester name. Miroku makes very good guns and if I wanted a Japanese made reproduction I'd probably go to them but not for a Winchester. Obviously the people now making decisions for the Winchester company and I differ on what a Winchester is. I'm a fan of Henry rifles line drawn in the sand "made in America or not made at all" (and Henry rifles, they are niiiiiiiiice).
The price would be on the high end of acceptable IF the rifle itself were actually a genuine American made Winchester. The best thing Winchester could do is get rid of everyone who's been making decisions thus far and start manufacturing the Winchester rifles Americans want in the US. Which means no hideous and unnecessary safeties or cheap short cuts...just high quality, rough and tumble, always go BOOM, lever action rifles that makes you say "niiiiiiiice".