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Goodbye to the Winchester, the gun that won the West
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"It's rather paradoxical that the rifle known as 'the gun that won the West' is actually one of the most popular whitetail deer guns of all time. Whitetail, you see, is a species of deer commonly found in the Eastern states."
"So when the U.S. Repeating Arms Company - maker of the Winchester Model 94 lever-action rifle - announced it was closing the doors to its New Haven, Conn., plant on March 31 after fabricating rifles and shotguns for 140 years, there wasn't much fanfare, at least out here in the West." ... |
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