I understand that the modern Winchesters have tang safeties, a deviation from Browning's original pattern. A friend of mine was excited to tell me that he'll soon be the proud owner of a takedown Winchester Trapper model in. Winchester has re-introduced various iterations of the '92, and these are being made in Japan. Improved metallurgy has made calibers such as the. Winchester phased out the '92 in 1941, but that only paved the way for clones in more modern calibers to appear, and these are still being made prolifically today. Who hasn't seen John Wayne win the West on the silver screen with a '92 equipped with a large loop lever? I understand that the Duke owned several. Peary carried one on his North Pole trips. The one millionth rifle was presented to Secretary of War Patrick Hurley on December 13, 1932. In only 2 weeks, Browning had a functioning prototype of what was to become the Model 1892 Winchester. The Model 1886 was known as having an extremely smooth action, but it was big and designed for such heavy hitters as the. Browning responded that if he couldn't have a prototype ready in under a month, Winchester could have it for free.īrowning went right to work, and basically scaled down the superb Model 1886 Winchester (his design also). Back in the early 1890s, Winchester asked John Browning if he could design an improved pistol-caliber lever action that could replace the lumbering old Model 1873.
