one of which was a beautiful model 70 featherweight, new haven build, with a stainless 24" barrel.he was asking 1000 dollars for it. The other day i was in a hunting shop here in south Alabama browsing the selection and i noticed the owner was selling a bunch of guns from his collection. Hello folks! new member and this is my first post! i hope this thread is still accurate and one of the historians here can give me a hand I also might add, if your rifle is not a Classic, all bets are off! I don't follow non-Classic serial numbers! But, I believe any late production rifles should fall into this regime. Then they later jumped over the previously used "G" numbers, to continue on with Classics that have 7 digits following the "G". When Winchester began producing the Classics in 1990, they went back and started using lower "G" prefix numbers, that had never been used, when they started the "G" prefix in 1969, or whenever, on the push-feeds.
You cannot use the charts for non-prefix numbers and expect a "G" prefix number to correlate.Īnother reason for confusion, is that the "G" serial numbers do a bit of jumping around. To cut to the chase, a serial number with the "G" prefix, and a serial number without a prefix are plain and simple, different serial numbers. I would add that there always seems to be a lot of confusion about the "G" prefix. The highest numbers I have ever seen are G304XXXX, and these would be the very latest numbers manufactured before the New Haven plant closed in 2006. A G34XXXXX (note: a 7 digit number following the "G"), to the best of my knowledge was never manufactured. This is attributed to the fact that large blocks of serial numbers were skipped during production.It might help if you would describe the rifle you actually have, but without that, a G34XXXX (note: a 6 digit number following the "G") would have been manufactured in about 2000. The last known serial number is 847,997, which does not match the number of rifles sold. Although production ended officially in 1932, a small number of Model 1906 rifles were built out of spare parts left in the factory until 1936. The Expert Model was a favorite of Theodore Roosevelt's children and cousins. The Standard Model was introduced after the 1908 change, and featured a grooved slide grip, while the Expert Model, the deluxe version produced from 1918 to 1924, had a plain fluted slide grip and a pistol gripped stock. It was distinguishable by its flat, plain slide grip. 22 Short Model was made until 1908, when the caliber modification came about. 22 Short Model, the Standard Model, and the Expert Model. There were three different variants produced by Winchester the. 22 Long Rifle interchangeably in order to ensure the rifle's continued popularity. 22 Short cartridge, however this was modified after serial number 113,000 (in the second year of production, 1908) when it was made to cycle.
When the Model 1906 first became available, it was chambered exclusively for the. The Winchester Model 1906 was designed as a more inexpensive companion to the popular Model 1890, the main differences being the 1906's flat shotgun-style butt plate and rounded barrel, as opposed to the 1890s crescent butt plate and octagon barrel. 22 caliber slide-action takedown rifle manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company from 1906-1932 with a total production of 729,305 built. Capacities: 22 Short, 15 cartridges 22 Long, 12 cartridges 22 Long Rifle 11 cartridges. Winchester Model 1890, Winchester Model 62