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Turnbull Restoration Winchester 1892 Deluxe Takedown
« on: November 10, 2020, 12:21:46 pm »
Guns  By Jeremy Clough

Better than you dare dream


Turnbull’s Deluxe takedown 1892 Winchester is made to order and features high-grade
walnut, Turnbull’s magnificent metal finishing and elimination of the troublesome tang safety.

The 1873 Winchester may be “The gun that won the West” but the Model 1892 is the Western levergun that won America’s heart. Yes, the ’73 came first, as did the buffalo-caliber 1886. True, its younger brother, the .30/30 model of 1894 has taken many a young man’s first deer and even has its own Mariachi song (look it up), but the lever-action 1892 is the uncredited hero in most of the Western movies we know. This makes it the levergun living in all of our memories — it was a ’92 Rooster Cogburn used to invite Ned Pepper to fill his hand, and anachronistically, introduced each episode of The Rifleman. It was, indeed, a ’92 that shot Liberty Valance.

Unsurprisingly for a rifle which has been around the better part of 130 years, many versions of the Winchester ’92 are available, including replicas by other makers but none quite match up to the Turnbull Restoration Company version. Available in limited numbers based on how many they are allotted by Winchester, the Turnbull gun starts as an in-the-white takedown rifle built to their own specifications.

Design history

There’s more than just nostalgia to the ’92. Like all of the lever guns designed by mechanical genius John Moses Browning, the 1892 has a certain timeless elegance. Born from Winchester’s desire for a stronger gun based on Browning’s ’86 to replace the aging ’73, it was also the subject of a bet between Browning and Winchester’s Vice President, resulting in Browning designing and delivering the gun in a scant 30 days. Almost half of it travel time between Winchester in New Haven, Conn. and Browning’s home in Ogden, Utah: a genius, indeed.

The largest caliber (and lightest) of the original ’92s, the .44-40 is its definitive chambering, with .45 Colt versions being only a recent invention. Like the ’73 before it, this gun matched cartridges with the Colt SAA, making the ’92 one of the original pistol caliber carbines.

More: https://gunsmagazine.com/rifles/turnbull-restoration-winchester-1892-deluxe-takedown/