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Useful links and blogs for the 1876
Grizzly Adams:
--- Quote from: Sir Charles deMouton-Black on June 09, 2011, 09:40:52 AM ---Here's Hobie's blog;
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Thanks for the updated link, Sir Charles. I have made the change above. :) COG's page is down, so I remove the dead end link.
Grizzly Adams:
--- Quote from: Slowhand Bob on August 21, 2012, 07:34:40 AM ---I think you may have left that last 'L' off the new link at the top??
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Fixed! Thanks. :)
Oregon Bill:
Reading Kirk Durston's article on the 1876, he mentions that Winchester was at work on a military prototype with longer receiver and more robust parts than the 66 and 73 as early as 1866, and that there is a Model 1868 prototype in the collections at the Cody Museum. The unusual yet familiar Winchester in this Youtube may be one of those prototypes. Anyway, I just get tired of gunwriters and others repeating the myth that Winchester simply "stretched the receiver of the 1873" to throw together a lever rifle that could handle buffalo-class cartridges when in truth it had been in development for a decade before its introduction.
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMYQZS0VlCA
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Coal Creek Griff:
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Oregon Bill:
Griff, I am still not sure if this is in fact a prototype of the rifle-caliber Winchester in development as of 1866 -- or a prototype of the 66 we know as the "Yellow Boy." Nothing definitive comes up in a search for an 1866, 1867 or 1868 that I can find... ???
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