Winchester '76 Lever Gun
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- čas přidán 1. 10. 2014
- Shooting and discussing a replica of the Winchester 1876. The owner of this rifle at Tennessee Gun Country indicates that the light strikes WERE due to a weak firing pin spring.
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Another great video.
My dad worked for Winchester here in Connecticut ,
Even though I was a child /young boy while he was there I have clean and clear memories of meeting factory workers from the "decision makers" to the super talented people on the production floor....I recall the WIDE plank wood floors .and a very specific smell.
I remember thinking .."woe. Oliver Winchester walked on these very floors and looked out these same windows" I was just a boy , and felt very lucky to walk through this huge part of American History. Dad owned 3 model 1876 and it was the first big bore rifle I fired .
The best day was when my dad had a model 94 stack made for me and fitted to my BB gun ! Sounds silly now. But I was the coolest kid on the block !
Amazing story, if it makes the story better my Winchesters were made in 48 and 74 and they're both still bringing joy too anyone who handles them, those us made Winchesters are second to none
The only sound scarier then the bang is the click.
*Click*~~~~~~*BANG*
$4 a shot? Wow. Seeing as how much I complain about the cost of .45 Colt, I can confidently say that the Winchester '76 is one gun I will never shoot. Thanks for shooting it for me hickok45!
DONT SAY NEVER. Just save up and in 4-10 years BANG!
.45lc is ~$1.50 a shot, right?
A decent reloading setup will dramatically reduce the price of ammo.
Once you get the brass, which will be easily the most expensive component, it shoud be much only slightly more expensive to make than .45 Colt, .44 Special, etc.
Try reloading!
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Unless you're doing it the wrong way, you shouldn't be reloading for 4-5 dollars a shot, even with as unusual caliber as .40-90, especially if you use cast bullets.
You might wind up spending that much for the really huge cartridges that require expensive jacketed bullets (think .50 BMG, .338 Lapua, or the monster Nitro Express cartridges), but certainly not for a medium large straight walled rifle cartridge.
So many of your 19th century anecdotes go unnoticed on your channel. I've got to say, your the best looking 170 year old on CZcams, I'd like to shake your physicians hand, you're both doing a fine job! A seriously beautiful long iron, drooling!
The 76 Win. with the full length stock is in my opinion the prettiest of all the Winchesters. The first one I saw was the rifle Tom Selleck used in the movie Crossfire Trail. I did some research on the 1876 Musket Rifle and found out that nearly all were sent to the RCMP for their service rifles.
Its great having so many supporters of this channel; you get to play with a lot toys and we get to sit back and enjoy the show.
1967, Stationed in Topeka Kansas. A small gun shop had bought a lever action rifle collection. The husband had passed away. The wife sold the collection. The shop was small in area. So many rifles the owner had them leaning against the front of display cases. I picked up, must have weighed 8 ,9 pounds. Seeing the rifle you'er shooting tells me I had picked a " 76". I asked " how much for this rifle?" He didn't even look up, busy putting tags on rifles. His answer was " $ 35.00
Being a young airman....Didn't have the money. But I, sometimes, think about those moments of a good.
The '76 Winchester is one of my all time favorite rifles! To put it in more modern terms, size wise the '76 Winchester is to the '73 Winchester what the AR10 is to the AR15, although chronologically they are reversed. I've been absolutely in love with the '76 since I first saw Tom Selleck shoot that '76 carbine in 'Crossfire Trail'. I'd love to own a 'Crossfire Carbine' in .45-60, a full length rifle in .45-75 & a short 'express rifle' in .50-95. A NWMP carbine in .45-75 would be cool too!!!
I have the full-length rifle in .45-75. Ammo is rare as hen's teeth and honest politicians. If you can find "factory" loads, it's somebody using .50-90 or .50 Alaskan brass. Finding dies to reload my own has been difficult, too. I have to say -- the Uberti is a beautiful rifle.
*John Marston sure loves this weapon!*
John Marston sure wished he had this weapon.
I don’t think this was ever in either game. There was an 1892 in RDR and an 1866 in RDR2, though
I am fortunate to have an original in 45-60 with set trigger and peep sight. It will drop 5 shots in an inch and a quarter at 100 yards. Not bad for a 139 year old!
Awesome! What are you doing for brass? I’m taking 45-70 brass and trimming the length to 1.89” and then using a homemade lathe to turn the rims down to the .045” headspace of my original
@@clintlautner9542 pretty much the same.I like that winchester made them with replaceable wear parts which keeps them shootable.
I had an 1876 Chaparral 45-60 and had a ton of problems with it to include failure to fire. I had accuracy problems and ended up selling it for a loss. A friend had a Uberti 1876 and had no problems with it at all. If you buy one buy uberti.
Fall is one heck of a pretty season
Yeah, I knew he was tennessean, and besides the World Capital of Music, you guys have the best fall??
What I have here in Belo Horizonte-Brazil are bars (lots of them). :(
Freestyle you'll find that everywhere.
Yeah McGregor, it's absolutely gorgeous. The trees line up outside my high school and make the perfect blend of colors each year. There's that one special week where everything is always blended perfectly, and it makes the best fall pictures.
California doesn't have fall :(
Josh Ramirez Yes it does, but has to be Northern California
6:36 that sound is heaven
One hell of a flinch Hickok!
There's just something about those hexagonal barrels, gotta love'em!
octagon not hexagon
camerl2009 Oh is it? It looked hexagonal to me at first. Okay then.
I love the look and history of this particular gun so much..
Hey I am a long time subscriber. I just want to say that your videos are really good. I think better then you realize. You deserve a spot of the history network to talk about all this stuff. You always say you only know enough to be dangerous, but I'll tell you what. The combo of your shooting skill, information, and southern drawl is a very marketable and a pleasing formula. Keep it up.
I learned a lot just watching how to debug an ammo issue. Good shooting and Teddy Roosevelt was a boyhood hero of mine along with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.
Teddy Roosevelt was an awesome president.
Hurts the shoulder and the wallet on the same triggerpull :D
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I like to shoot at least two hundred round when I go shooting at the indoor range. That's not much for a lot of people, and trying to stomach an $800 ammo bill for two hundred rounds for about an hour of fun is a little beyond what 99% of people are willing to pay.
Thats why always be careful ^^
Hardcaslte This is why people need to learn how to make their own ammo it’s significantly cut down on cost
Lever guns are awesome. Probably my #1 pick for a weapon in the apocalypse.
Just saw this video today. I actually have an original 1876 in .45/60. Belonged to my greatgrandfather. Rifle was built in the 1880s, blackpowder only, last cartridges I found were loaded in the 1920s. Last time I fired it (1993) was with 1890s ammumintion. A 26-28” octagon barrel gets heavy fast. It shares storage space with an original 1886 built Trapdoor Springfield, also my greatgrandfather’s rifle. Probably cost him $3-5/ea through Bannerman’s at the turn of the last century. Both rifles need a lot of tlc, have been in storage for decades.
What a timely video. I just watched the Tom Selleck movie 'Crossfire Trail' a couple days ago (on CZcams, no less), and a Winchester 1876 Centennial Model plays a role in the movie. It was the first time I ever heard of a 45-60, so it was cool to get the details on the cartridge and the gun. Thanks, Hickok!
Watch Tom Horn (1980). Steve McQueen carries one, too.
Boy, now you've done it again!
I never knew this was out there, it's a beautiful long gun. Hickok45 you are draining my wallet once again.
I like the long lines and it looks as though it shoots like it was made to create Havoc.
Love it
Beautiful gun, even though it is a replica. I love the lever guns. Thanks for sharing it with us.
As always, thanks’ for taking the time to make this video! And I support this site. ~M~
Thank you for another historical vid! Always enjoy the "Levers".
I love these rifles, they are so well made. The thick steel is great!
But John Browning came out with his locking lever action design for a reason to handle the more powerful cartridges. Suppose I'd never feel easy firing the 1876 and would opt for a John Browning Winchester of the next decade instead.
My grandpa has one of these chambered in 45-75 and its a beautiful rifle. It packs one heck of a punch and he paid almost 1300 dollars for the rifle and he loads for it. He bought a box once and it was 100 dollars for 20. But like hickok 45 said not many people have heard of them. When i bring them up people call me a liar then we argu then there your right. then im like i know i was lol. But live your videos hickok keep it up.
That '76 is so beautiful that it makes the '73 look ugly. And the '73 is not an ugly rifle.
Damn 4 dollars a shot thats expensive thanks for the review Hickok. :)
+James Amescua
Reload!
So beautiful rifle!
nice! love lever guns and colt revolvers
I have an 1876 winchester reproduction in 50-95 express. I have black powder and smokeless rounds. The rifle is a Uberti. The rifle had a very heavy trigger pull so I had it softened to about 3 pounds. It shoots just fine..
I want the Uberti one in .50-95 winchester express
I bought ammo for my 1876 for 2 yr.'s before buying my rifle. And I am still buying ammo for it today. I love mine.
I think you spent more on ammo than I did on my first gun
DAMN!!! Don't ya just hate the flinch?? Great job as always Hickok, keep up the great gun vids!!
Another gorgeous rifle! A new firing pin spring isn’t a big deal at all to swap out. Thanks for showing it.
See how you are. You held on to this gem of a video for nearly a year. I remember that '76 from your "Winchester Leverguns" video and wondered if we would see it again.
.45/75 WAS THE RIFLE STEVE MCQUEEN USED IN TOM HORN .
No, that was a 45/60, original 1876
Thanks Mr H for bringing 1876 to us ...
Thank you for the video hikock!! Nice weapon!!
My. Brother has a period 76 given to him by our grandfather. It needs some restoration but will fire. Chambered .45 60. These rifles were carried by the northwest Territorial police so some have a sawed off barrel unfortunately. I figured they needed the shortness for quick action on horseback. I didn't know replicas were readily available. Great to see it fire love your videos.
A rifle like that will cure you of the "yips" pretty quick. Bet you never knew you'd flinch that hard! LOL. What a great weapon.
nice hickok! love the 76 Lever Gun! :D
i can hear my wallet scream with each shot
Seeing you holding that " 76" reminded me of holding a rifle like that with a cresent butt. A gun shop in Topeka Kansas had bought a collection of lever actions. The gun shop was small and there had to be a couple of hundred rifles. The one I held must have weighed at least eight pounds. Octagon barrel. I asked how much for this rifle. $;35.00.....$35 dollars for all of them. 1967....BOY would I like to find a deal like that. I was an E2 airman and a son. Didn't have the money. I want to own a repro in 45-60.
i have an uberti 1876 in 5095 it s a cool gun it hard to get ammo for it i love it
Michigan has one heck of an Autumn color change/weather.. Vermont and the east coast also..
I am guessing that this is the gun I saw at the American History Museum at Bath, England back in the 1960s! I have always wondered if Winchester made a Buffalo Gun? This must be it?
I don't want to come in front of this man when he has a gun in his hand, cause he doesn't miss
If Teddy Roosevelt's 1876 had those issues he would have sent it back to Winchester in a hurry!
It was the ammo
Sweet indeed..
Thank you
I really liked this video, even though you had problems. I liked how you showed the proper way to handle a firearm during an issue. Keeping it down range and staying calm. Great video!
I bought a Chaparral 1876 in 45-60 and was disappointed. I had misfires just like you did and accuracy problems with factory ammo so I tried hand loads with the same result. I had to polish all the internal parts since the factory failed to do a good job. I never got it to work right and sold it for a loss. I have fired the Uberti 1876 and experienced none of the problems I had with Chaparral..Do yourself a favor and save up to buy uberti 1876 you will be glad you did.
The problem I found with my .45-75 is the thick ,sticky, grease that Charter or Chaparral applied to the moving parts. It needs a full take down out of the box to clean it out and put in a light lube. I just use WD-40. What was happening in cold weather especially was the grease actually locked up the firing pin or made it so stiff it would not hit the primer hard enough. That's what you see here. Also on examination there is a witness mark on the firing pin that shows it is dragging on the bolt pin bore. Polishing the firing pin cleaned that up. The case hardening is actually an dip and not actual case hard as is the poly stock finish which is no different than much of the imported furniture you may see today. As far as expensive ammo we must remember that it all boils down to a trade off. Fun verses no fun. If we knew how much a wife or husband would eventually cost we wouldn't go near them.
That second shot at the start almost had me thinking he was going to throw it
I'm writing a story based in the Old West. This video was really informative. Thank you. :) If you still read comments on this older video, I'd love to ask some questions to help my research. Thanks!
One kind of sad thing is that the Win 86 is very late compared to Wild West history.
But if there was a game happening in 1875-76 this rifle would be the best one, either a prototype or very expansive with a very rare ammunition.
Love your channel keep it up
One of these in .458 SOCOM would be really cool. Though the action might not be able to handle the pressures.
I read in a review of these Chaparral rifles, several years ago, that the reason the grain on the stocks was so beautiful is that they were actually printed with that pattern before the finish was applied. Chaparral is apparently no longer in business, but there are still some of these rifles around at dealers, still new in the box. They don't have a very good reputation for functioning. Uberti does still make the '76.
Got a flinch going
I love the older weapons 😊
Beautiful weapon - and at the same time it looks like you can tear down a brick wall with it. Perfect.
The 40-60 must've seen a lot of use in it's time. It is the only old timey caliber I find laying around in the field. Found one spent case on the South Pyramid of the Cascades in Oregon and another in the Missouri river breaks of Montana.
Your range and garden is beautiful. At any time of the year. Damn!
Light strikes aside, this is one accurate rifle.
Nice nice nice! Thank you for sharing
the spring...my thought was about the spring...so evident
Beautiful Gun.
I read in an interesting article that Winchester show cased their new Centennial rifle at the world's fair which took place in Chicago in 1876 and that it was the only repeating rifle with " successful,documented use in the northern plains buffalo slaughter."
Even more amazing is the story the author relates about a series of trials Oliver Winchester subjected his new model rifle to putting to rest concerns sportsmen of the day supposedly had concerning the strength of the repeating rifle with all of it's small,perhaps delicate moving parts and the compatibility of such a design with cartridges advertised to, no doubt, rival the single shot buffalo guns of the day.Apparently rather copious amounts of lead and gun powder were used in increasingly larger and larger successive loads before the rifle's action was finally breached.
According to "The Book of Rifles" by Smith & Smith, the Win. 1876 Rifle was used by the North West Canadian Mounted Police in the carbine version, caliber 45-75, from 1878 to 1885. Thanks!
Loving this winchester !!
I remember watching some cowboy show or movie on Lonestar with my dad, they where having a shootout and the older guy that joined the group shot a bad guy through a door, he laughs and shows that the trigger on his rifle was tied back with a snare and he'd just pull the hammer back with his thumb and let go. I'm not advising anyone to try that but this reminded me of that scene
That gun shows how bad you flinch and the reason you shoot left or low.
love that thanks for this one
I had the same issue with some 30-06 ammo I made up. I realized it was due to not uniforming the primer pockets. This caused the the primers to not be seated totally in the pocket which caused the issue. Once I uniformed the primer pockets I didn't have any more light primer strikes.
That is a beast
Please do a video like you mentioned showing the toggle link system. Possibly comparing to some of the later lever action systems. Thank you for another great video sir.
Looks great but wow what a waste of money. Not a gun I would own. I will say this...that was one of my all time favorite videos. Hickok 45 you were flinching like crazy. Had a good chuckle at that. What I like the most out of your videos...you don't hide anything. Your truthful and show the good, bad and ugly of the firearms you are using. That is why I come here first. Thank you.
You're the first older person i have seen to shoot a gun
Subscribed!
oh the things you'll see here... Hickok45 is the MAN!
ddyoder that is for sure my friend much knowledge this man has
Joey Bees knowledge, and humor!
I would love to see you shoot a marlin 1818 model in 45/70! Big fan keep up the good work!
My Dad had one of those. I'm still a little cranky that he sold it!!!
Wow, beautiful rifle!! I was thinking of getting on until I saw the box of ammo $80.00 a box.I would have to refinance my house just to shoot it. lol
Beautiful !
4$ a shot? I'll never complain about my 338 federal again lol! Thanks for posting. Very educational despite the light strikes
My buddy has one of those in 45-60 a real winchester, it is now used for long range squirrel evaporation, weve never had any problems with it for it's entire 130 year existence.
It's goode ole wholesome/expensive fun
Tom horn. 1980, Steve MacQueen’s final film.
Actually second to last film
His last was The Hunter.
Actually shot a Winchester 1894 30-30. But I love the movie.
Yep. He shot a '76 in .45-60.
Fall 2013......Leaves back on trees with Arsenal Video.
omg,this is one handsome rifle , its like the shape was destined to be build for some reason :D
I have a 1876 Chaparral rifle and treasure it as one of the finer rifles I have owned. The 45-75 ammo is hard to find ( never over counter ) but you can buy brass or reform Winchester .348 brass. Modern steel and case hardening makes for for more strength for common sense loads, The Uberti rile is very fine and good, but I have not seen a Uberti as pretty as the Chaparral. Either one if you see it for sale, grab it, they are few and far between.
Just US$4,00?
Down here In The Nanny State of Brazil, 44-40 goes for about US$8,00 a pop. Ammunition for these guns are family heirlooms.
By the way, We call the Winchester 1873 the Yellow-belly.
Thanks for showing it's bug brother!
Cristiano Nogueira Qual estado vc mora ?
The 73 is not the yellowboy, that's the 66.
as usual excellent video
Great quality product
Both my Uberti 73's and 1 of my 66's did this and all 3 needed the extractor end where it meets the barrel filled down. They seem to make them to long and it binds the firing pin.
love the wood on that!
If this were mine, I'd disconnect that safety. But what a beautiful gun!
Winchester is my favorite rifle.
The Uberti copies are MUCH better made than the Chaparrals were. Notice I said WERE, as they are no longer made. The company went out of business some years ago-too many problems with QC and distribution. There is a reason why you don't see any Chaparrals at any CAS events. They are junk. Avoid them at all costs.