Comments by "gary K" (@garyK.45ACP) on "WEREWOLF DEFENSE!!! (Pure Silver 50 BMG, 500 Su0026W, 12 Gauge u0026 More)" video.
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@mondotib Congratulations!
FWIW, Oliver Winchester didn't "create" any firearms. He was a marketing and manufacturing genius. He took other people's designs (Smith & Wesson, Henry and King) and brought them to the market. He was a wheeler and dealer and marketeer, but not a firearms designer.
He died in 1880, even before the most famous Winchester rifles (designed by John Browning) were invented.
He started by assembling investors to buy the "Volcanic Arms Co." from Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson (of S&W fame) in 1855 renamed it "New Haven Arms" and started work on marketing what would become the "Henry Rifle" in 1860. Named for Benjamin Tyler Henry who was acquired with the deal with S&W and inventor of the Henry rifle. In 1866 the rifle was improved with the "King's patent" loading system, and that rifle went on to become the first "Winchester" rifle, the Model 1866. The Models 1873 and 1876 were basically iron frame versions of the Model 1866, sized for the cartridges they chambered.
Beginning with the Model 1878 single shot rifle and continuing through the Models 1886, 1892, 1894, 1895 lever action rifles and the Models 1887, 1897 and 1901 shotguns, were all John Browning designs.
Oliver Winchester was long dead by that time.
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