Original U.S. Winchester Model 1873 .32-20 Repeating Rifle with Round Barrel Made in 1885 - Serial 190965B

Original Item: Only One Available. "The Gun that Won the West!" This lovely "frontier-used" repeating rifle is in .32-20 Winchester caliber, correctly marked with 32 CAL. over the chamber and on the brass carrier block. It features a very nice 24 inch round barrel and full-length magazine tube. As with all examples, it is marked MODEL. 1873. on the upper receiver tang. Features a replaced front sight and "Flat-top" rear adjustable sight. The serial number is 190965B, denoting the year of manufacture as 1885. Also, as it is marked with a serial number over 90,000, this is considered a "Third Model", which featured improvements over the first two iterations of the design. The most noticeable change from the Second to Third models is that the dovetail that the dust cover slide on is machined directly into the receiver, and not attached by screws as it was previously. The Third model is what Winchester made until the end of the production run when the serial numbers exceeded 700,000. The e