During World War I, while John Browning was working on a heavy machine gun that would use a .50 caliber cartridge, Cody Firearms Museum Assistant Curator Danny Michael said Winchester got the Army contract to create that cartridge. “So as they were developing this, they obviously needed a gun to use as a testbed to […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2015 Plinky Topperwein’s Winchester Model 1890 shooting gallery rifle The Winchester Model 1873 frequently has been called “The Gun That Won The West.” In his massive—and brilliant—two volume tome about it, James D. Gordon, a member of the Cody Firearms Museum’s Advisory Board, said of this Winchester, […]