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Description: | 1. MANUFACTURED BY THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN. CONN. U.S.A. PAT. AUG. 27.01. FEB. 25. 02. FEB. 3. 17. DEC. 22. 03
2. MOD. 1903 .22 CAL. AUTOMATIC. -WINCHESTER TRADE MARK REG. IN U.S. PAT. OFF.
3.U.S. over flaming bomb
Introduced March 1903, discontinued 1932, c. 126,000 made. Introduced the .22 Winchester Automatic cartridge, non-interchangeable with the .22 Long Rifle. At the time it was felt that the plethora of .22 Long Rifle loads with a wide variety of propellant powders would militate against reliable functioning of a blowback self loading rifle.
simple blowback hammerless takedown rifle designed by Thomas Crossley Johnson. Ten round tube magazine in butt. London proved. U.S. Ordnance mark. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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