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Winchester Model 1873
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Referred to as the "Gun that Won the West", the Winchester Model 1873 is an American lever-action rifle manufactured by Winchester Repeating Arms. It is one of the most widely produced and famous lever-action rifles ever made, with over 720,000 produced between 1873 and 1923. It was originally offered in the following calibers: .44-40, .38-40 and .32-20. Modern replicas are offered in those calibers and .45 LC as well, though it wasn't originally offered in that caliber.
Something many don't know: John M. Browning used an 1873 to make his first prototype automatic firing gun. After seeing what a muzzle blast could do to a patch of grass, he tested it and found he was correct. The muzzle blast from the gun was heavy enough to be harnessed, so he took a flapper and attached it to the muzzle of the rifle with a rod running to the lever to operate it every time the flapper moved, making the first automatic rifle.
The Winchester Model 1873 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Specifications
(1873 - 1923)
- Weight: 9.5lb (4.3kg)
- Length: 49.3in (125.2cm)
- Barrel length: 30in (76.2cm)
- Caliber: .44-40 Winchester, .38-40 Winchester, .32-20 Winchester, .22 LR
- Action: Lever-action
- Feed system: 15 round tube magazine
- Sights: Graduated rear sights, Fixed-post front sights
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back to God's Country | Wheeler Oakman | Peter Burke | 1919 | |
| Wellington A. Playter | Capt. Rydal | |||
| Charles Murphy | The Half-Breed | |||
| William Colvin | Mountie | |||
| Roy Laidlaw | Baptiste LeBeau, Dolores' Father | |||
| San Quentin | Prison Guard | 1937 | ||
| White Fang | uncredited | Bill | 1946 | |
| Fort Apache | Native Americans | 1948 | ||
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Native Americans | 1949 | ||
| Rio Grande | Apaches | some reused footage from Fort Apache | 1950 | |
| Winchester '73 | Charles Drake | Steve Miller | Custom "One of a Thousand" | 1950 |
| Winchester '73 | James Stewart | Lin McAdam | Custom "One of a Thousand" | 1950 |
| Winchester '73 | Millard Mitchell | Frankie Wilson | 1950 | |
| Winchester '73 | Rock Hudson | Young Bull | Custom "One of a Thousand" | 1950 |
| Winchester '73 | Stephen McNally | Dutch Henry Brown | Custom "One of a Thousand" | 1950 |
| Winchester '73 | Tony Curtis | Pvt. Doan | Custom "One of a Thousand" | 1950 |
| Winchester '73 | Will Geer | Wyatt Earp | Custom "One of a Thousand" | 1950 |
| High Noon | Gary Cooper | Will Kane | 1952 | |
| The Tall Men | Jane Russell | Nella Turner | 1955 | |
| Clark Gable | Colonel Ben Allison | |||
| Various characters | ||||
| The Magnificent Seven | Steve McQueen | Vinn | 1960 | |
| Flaming Star | Steve Forrest | Clint Burton | Rifle | 1960 |
| Seen in Pierce's general store; Rifles and a Saddle Ring Carbine | ||||
| How the West Was Won | George Peppard | Zeb | 1962 | |
| How the West Was Won | Lee J. Cobb | Marshal Lou Ramsey | 1962 | |
| Lonely Are the Brave | Police officer | 1962 | ||
| Navajo Joe | Nicoletta Machiavelli | Estella | 1966 | |
| Navajo Joe | Burt Reynolds | Navajo Joe | 1966 | |
| The Sons of Great Bear (Die Söhne der großen Bärin) | Gojko Mitic | Tokei-Ihto | 1966 | |
| Jirí Vrstala | Fred "Red Fox" Clark | |||
| Hannjo Hasse | Pitt | |||
| Rolf Römer | Tobias | |||
| Horst Jonischkan | Adams | |||
| Kati Szekely | Vinonah | |||
| Jozef Adamovic | Tschapa | |||
| Jozef Majercík | Tschetansapa | |||
| A Bullet for the General | El Chuncho men | 1966 | ||
| Billion Dollar Brain | Ed Begley | General Midwinter | 1967 | |
| Hour of the Gun | Jason Robards | Doc Holliday | 1967 | |
| Hour of the Gun | James Garner | Wyatt Earp | 1967 | |
| Hour of the Gun | Monte Markham | Sherman McMasters | 1967 | |
| Hombre | Paul Newman | John Russell | short magazine | 1967 |
| Trail of the Falcon | Gojko Mitic | Farsighted Falcon | 1968 | |
| Trail of the Falcon | The soldiers, gold-diggers and indians | 1968 | ||
| Will Penny | Charlton Heston | Will Penny | 1968 | |
| Will Penny | Lee Majors | Blue | 1968 | |
| The Vulture (Le Rapace) | Enrique Lucero | Bosco | Rifle and carbine | 1968 |
| Carlos Cardán | Ruiz | Saddle Ring Carbine | ||
| Augusto Benedico | Calvez | Carbine | ||
| Guerillas | Rifles and carbines | |||
| White Wolves (Weisse Wölfe) | Holger Mahlich | Sheriff Pat Patterson | Carbine | 1969 |
| Gojko Mitic | Farsighted Falcon | |||
| Karl Zugowski | Andy Sleek | |||
| Slobodan Dimitrijevic | Cunning Fox | |||
| Slobodan Velimirovic | Strong Left Hand | |||
| Horst Schulze | Collins P. Harrington | |||
| Bandits | ||||
| Fatal Error (Tödlicher Irrtum) | Gerry Wolff | Ben | Carbine | 1970 |
| Shoshone warriors | ||||
| El Topo | Alfonso Arau | 1st Bandit | Carbine | 1970 |
| Alejandro Jodorowsky | El Topo | |||
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Paul Newman | Roy Bean | 1972 | |
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Various characters | 1972 | ||
| The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Dana Elcar | Allen | 1972 | |
| The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Donald Moffat | Anselm R. Manning | 1972 | |
| My Name Is Nobody | Henry Fonda | Jack Beauregard | 1973 | |
| My Name Is Nobody | Geoffrey Lewis | Wild Bunch Leader | 'Mares Leg' | 1973 |
| Westworld | Yul Brynner | Gunslinger | 1973 | |
| Chino | Charles Bronson | Chino Valdez | Carbine, European replica | 1973 |
| A Boy and His Dog | Rival gang member | 1975 | ||
| The Deadly Tower | Armed Citizen | 1975 | ||
| Posse | Bo Hopkins | Wesley | 1975 | |
| The Tree of Guernica (L'arbre de Guernica) | Spanish Republicans | May be Italian replica | 1975 | |
| Keoma | Franco Nero | Keoma | 1976 | |
| Keoma | Caldwell's henchmen | 1976 | ||
| High Noon Part II: The Return of Will Kane | Pernell Roberts | J.D. Ward | 1980 | |
| The Long Riders | David Carradine | Cole Younger | 1980 | |
| The Long Riders | James Keach | Jesse James | 1980 | |
| The Long Riders | Randy Quaid | Clell Miller | 1980 | |
| The Long Riders | Stacy Keach | Frank James | 1980 | |
| Death Hunt | Andrew Stevens | RCMP Constable Adams | 1981 | |
| Death Hunt | Denis Lacroix | Jimmy Tom | 1981 | |
| Death Hunt | William Sanderson | Ned Warren | 1981 | |
| The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes) | Jorge Luke | Guerrilla leader | 1984 | |
| The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes) | Guerrillas | 1984 | ||
| Murder with Mirrors | John Laughlin | Wally Markham | 1985 | |
| Silverado | Jeff Fahey | Tyree | 1985 | |
| Kevin Kline | Paden | |||
| Rusty Meyers | Roscoe | |||
| Scott Glenn | Emmet Hollis | |||
| Todd Allen | Deputy Kern | |||
| Captain of "Pilgrim" (Kapitan "Piligrima") | Virgilio Echmendia | Hercules | 1987 | |
| Slavers | ||||
| The Quick and the Dead | Sam Elliott | Con Vallian | 1987 | |
| The Blue Iguana | gunmen | 1988 | ||
| Miracle Mile | Lou Hancock | Lucy Peters | 1988 | |
| National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | on gun rack in pickup truck | 1989 | ||
| White Fang | James Remar | Beauty Smith | Carbine | 1991 |
| Bill Moseley | Luke | |||
| Pius Savage | Grey Beaver | |||
| Charles Jimmie Sr. | An old Indian | |||
| Tombstone | Stephen Lang | Ike Clanton | 1993 | |
| Wyatt Earp | Todd Allen | Sherm MacMasters | 1993 | |
| Jonathan of the Bears | Aleksandr Pyatkov | Hunter | 1994 | |
| Ennio Girolami | Mercenary | |||
| Knifewing Segura | Chatow | |||
| Franco Nero | Jonathan Kowalski | |||
| Legends of the Fall | Aidan Quinn | Alfred Ludlow | 1994 | |
| Legends of the Fall | Brad Pitt | Tristan Ludlow | 1994 | |
| Legends of the Fall | Julia Ormond | Susannah Fincannon Ludlow | 1994 | |
| Mulholland Falls | Seen On Gen. Timms' rifle rack | 1996 | ||
| Last Man Standing | One of the men who massacres the truck convoy | 1996 | ||
| Breakdown | Vincent Berry | Deke Barr | 1997 | |
| A Life Less Ordinary | Maury Chaykin | Todd Johnson | 1997 | |
| Switchback | bar patron | 1997 | ||
| Wild Wild West | Will Smith | Capt. James "Jim" West | Cut-down to resemble "Mare's Leg" | 1999 |
| Purgatory | Peter Stormare | Cavin Guthrie | Carbine | 1999 |
| A sheriff's deputy | ||||
| High Noon | Various | Frank Miller's men | 2000 | |
| Crossfire Trail | Christian Kane | J.T. Langston | 2001 | |
| Crossfire Trail | Wilford Brimley | Joe Gill | 2001 | |
| Monte Walsh | Various cowboys | 2002 | ||
| Lone Hero | Robert Forster | Gus | 2002 | |
| Open Range | Kevin Costner | Charlie Waite | 2003 | |
| Open Range | Michael Gambon | Denton Baxter | 2003 | |
| Open Range | Robert Duvall | Boss Spearman | 2003 | |
| The Last Samurai | Billy Connolly | Zebulon Gant | 2003 | |
| The Last Samurai | Tom Cruise | Nathan Algren | Trapper model | 2003 |
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Sean Connery | Allen Quatermain | 2003 | |
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Shane West | Agent Tom Sawyer | 2003 | |
| Tremors 4: The Legend Begins | John Dixon | Big Horse Johnson | 2004 | |
| Miracle at Sage Creek | Buck Taylor | Buckskin Charlie | 2005 | |
| Desperation | Vigilantes | 2006 | ||
| Bandidas | Regulators, Mexican soldiers | some with "Short Rifles" | 2006 | |
| Rapid Fire | Brendan Fletcher | Billy | 2006 | |
| The Golden Compass | Sam Elliott | Lee Scoresby | 2007 | |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Gang members | 2007 | ||
| Appaloosa | Ed Harris | Virgil Cole | "Short Rifles" with 20" Octagonal barrels | 2008 |
| Appaloosa | Jeremy Irons | Randall Bragg | "Short Rifles" with 20" Octagonal barrels | 2008 |
| Lone Rider | Lou Diamond Phillips | Bobby Hattaway | Rifle | 2008 |
| Terry Maratos | Curtis | |||
| Marta DuBois | Dora Hattaway | |||
| Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf | Dean Simone | Cowboy Gunman 1 | 2009 | |
| Blood Creek | Dominic Purcell | Victor Marshall | 2009 | |
| Yakuza Busting Girls: Final Death Ride Battle | Chuck Johnson | Yamada | 2010 | |
| Yakuza Hunters 2: The Revenge Duel in Hell | Asami Sugiura | Asami | 2010 | |
| Survival of the Dead | Kenneth Welsh | Patrick O'Flynn | 2010 | |
| True Grit | Jeff Bridges | Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn | "Short" rifle with octagonal barrel | 2010 |
| 6 Guns | Barry Van Dyke | Frank Allison | Carbine | 2010 |
| Carey Van Dyke | Joe Beall | |||
| Killing Season | Robert De Niro | Benjamin Ford | 2013 | |
| John Travolta | Emil Kovac | |||
| The Salvation | Mads Mikkelsen | Jon Jensen | Rifle and carbine | 2014 |
| Alexander Arnold | Voichek Borowski | Rifle | ||
| Jeffrey Dean Morgan | Henry Delarue | Carbine | ||
| Eva Green | Madelaine | Carbine | ||
| Langley Kirkwood | "Man With Beard" | Carbine | ||
| Bone Tomahawk | Matthew Fox | John Brooder | 2015 | |
| Slow West | Jeffrey Thomas | Union Officer | 2015 | |
| Andrew Robertt | Werner | |||
| Forsaken | Joel Jackshaw | Chadwick's man | 2015 | |
| The Legend of Tarzan | Samuel L. Jackson | George Washington Williams | 2016 | |
| The Magnificent Seven | Vincent D'Onofrio | Jack Horne | Long Range | 2016 |
| Ethan Hawke | Goodnight Robicheax | "Short" rifle with octagonal barrel | ||
| Denzel Washington | Sam Chilsolm | |||
| Byung-hun Lee | Billy Rocks | |||
| Chris Pratt | Joshua Farraday | Mare's Leg | ||
| In a Valley of Violence | Ethan Hawke | Paul | Saddle Ring Carbine | 2016 |
| Toby Huss | Deputy Harris | |||
| Brimstone | Frederick Schmidt | Sheriff Zeke | Carbine | 2016 |
| Hostiles | Christian Bale | Capt. Joseph Blocker | Carbine | 2017 |
| Rosamund Pike | Rosalee Quaid | |||
| Scott Anderson | Muny | Long Rifle | ||
| Halloween | Jamie Lee Curtis | Laurie Strode | 2018 | |
| Halloween | Judy Greer | Karen Nelson | 2018 | |
| The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Rod Rondeaux | The Sioux Chief | Rifle | 2018 |
| The Kid | Dane DeHaan | Billy "The Kid" | Carbine | 2019 |
| Chad Daschnaw | Dave Rudabaugh | |||
| Sheriff's deputies | ||||
| Deadwood: The Movie | Tony Curran | James Smith | Carbine | 2019 |
| Terror on the Prairie | Heath Freeman | Gold Teeth | 2022 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Virginian | Stuart Granger | Col Alan McKenzie | Ep 01 "The west vs Col McKenzie" | 1970 |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | Marina Sirtis | Deanna Troi | 1987-1994 | |
| Lonesome Dove | Tommy Lee Jones | Captain Woodrow Call | 1989 | |
| Return To Lonesome Dove | Jon Voight | Captain Woodrow Call | 1993 | |
| Return To Lonesome Dove | Nia Peeples | Augustina Vega | 1993 | |
| Return To Lonesome Dove | Louis Gossett Jr. | Isom Pickett | 1993 | |
| Rough Riders | Pablo Espinosa | Major Fredrick Funston | 1997 | |
| Smallville - Season 2 | John Schneider | Jonathan Kent | "Heat" (S2E02) | 2002 |
| Firefly | Gina Torres | Zoe Alleyne Washburne | 2002-2003 | |
| Deadwood | Dayton Callie | Charlie Utter | 2004-2006 | |
| Deadwood | Jim Beaver | Whitney Ellsworth | 2004-2006 | |
| Deadwood | Robin Weigert | Calamity Jane | 2004-2006 | |
| Deadwood | Sean Bridgers | Johnny Burns | 2004-2006 | |
| Deadwood | W. Earl Brown | Dan Dority | 2004-2006 | |
| Midsomer Murders | Daniel Ryan | Adam Burbage | Uberti replica; S13E3 "Blood on the Saddle" | 2010 |
| Breaking Bad - Season 3 | Seen on photo; "Sunset" (S3E06) | 2010 | ||
| Top Shot - Season 3 | 2011 | |||
| Agent Carter | actors on set | "Better Angels" (S2E03) | 2016 | |
| Wynonna Earp (TV Series) | Dominique Provost-Chalkley | Waverly Earp | "House of Memories" (S1E12) | 2016-2017 |
| The Son - Season 1 | Carlos Bardem | Pedro Garcia | 2017 | |
| Fear the Walking Dead - Season 3 | Black Hat Reservation resident | "The Unveiling" (S3E07) | 2017 | |
| Daniel Sharman | Troy Otto | "Minotaur" (S3E09) | ||
| Godless | Thomas Brodie-Sangster | Whitey Winn | Carbine | 2017 |
| Whitney Able | Anna McNue | |||
| Christiane Seidel | Martha Bishop | |||
| Barbie Robertson | Julie Ann | Carbine and rifle | ||
| Tess Frazer | Callie Dunne | Carbine and rifle | ||
| Scoot McNairy | Sheriff Bill McNue | Rifle | ||
| Kim Coates | Ed Logan | |||
| Residents of La Belle and Blackdom | Carbines and rifles | |||
| Fear the Walking Dead - Season 4 | Garret Dillahunt | John Dorie | "What's Your Story?" (S4E01), "Good Out Here" (S4E03), "Buried" (S4E04), "Laura" (S4E05) | 2018 |
| Efka Kvaraciejus | Leland's Bandit | "What's Your Story?" (S4E01) | ||
| Lennie James | Morgan Jones | "Buried" (S4E04), "Just In Case" (S4E06) | ||
| 1883 | Tim McGraw | John Dutton | Short Rifle, Long Rifle, Half-magazine Rifle | 2021 |
| Sam Elliott | Shea Brennan | Long Rifle, Half-magazine Rifle | ||
| James Landry Hébert | Wade | Short Rifle | ||
| Noah Le Gros | Colton | Short Rifle | ||
| David Midthunder | Two Feathers | Long Rifle | ||
| Tokala Black Elk | Lakota war chief | Long Rifle | ||
| Martin Sensmeier | Comanche Sam | Carbine | ||
| Settlers | Short Rifle |
Video Games
| Title | Referred as | Mods | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BloodRayne | Winkesler Rifle | 2002 | ||
| Cross Fire | "Winchester" | 2007 | ||
| "Winchester-Scope" | with a scope | |||
| Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West | 2010 | |||
| No More Room In Hell | Winchester 1892 | Whereas the game identifies it as a Winchester Model 1892, its actual 3D model is a Winchester Model 1873 Rifle | 2011 | |
| Payday 2 | Repeater 1874 | added in The Butcher's Western Pack (2015) | 2013 | |
| World of Guns: Gun Disassembly | Winchester 1873 | with octagon barrel | 2014 | |
| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | 2016 | |||
| Hunt: Showdown | Winfield 1873 | Basic variant has a short magazine tube, variants with scope, blades on the stock for melee, suppressor, aperture sight, bayonet, and extended magazine tube available | 2018 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots | Boss, Boss' men | 1969 | |
| The Dagger of Kamui | Rapist, Cowboy | 1985 | |
| Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door | Seen in the spaghetti western Jet watches | 2001 | |
| Gun Frontier | Shinunora | 2002 | |
| Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky | Seen in Manami's virtual armory | 2010 | |
| The Empire of Corpses | Frederick Burnaby | 2015 |
See Also
- Winchester Repeating Arms - A list of all firearms manufactured by Winchester Repeating Arms.