Gun Collectors Dream Auction #69 Weapons of War!
Lot 1049:
Here We Have a Scarce Antique U.S. Property Marked Winchester Model 1895 Rifle Chambered in .30-40, Serial #13258 Dates to 1898, Theodore Roosevelt’s "Big Medicine" It was designed by the legendary gun designer, John Moses Browning. The Model 1895 was the last John M. Browning design for Winchester. An important historical distinction is that the Model 1895 was designed and engineered to accommodate a new generation of military cartridges utilizing smokeless powder. Another significant feature was the innovative non-detachable ?box magazine.? This design made it possible to chamber in the revolution of more powerful pointed bullets. Winchester was a tubular magazine company until the Modle 1895 came along. It was the first box magazine rifle developed by Winchester.
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