PRIME WINCHESTER 1885 WINDER MUSKET CAL, 22 SHORT

SERIAL NUMBER 128089. BARREL 28", CALIBER .22 SHORT. MANUFACTURED 1918. Produced by Winchester for indoor target practice and used extensively for Military training and rifle instruction. The Winder musket was the brainchild of Colonel C. B. Winder, who advocated marksmanship training with a rifle of similar size and weight to a service rifle but chambered in .22 rimfire. Single shot, blue finish with blade front sight and factory fitted with the Lyman model 41 side sight. Military configured American walnut stocks with finger groove forearm and musket pattern butt. Rifle remains in a superb state of preservation with nearly 99% of the factory blue remaining on the barrel and has a pristine bright shiny bore. The receiver retains nearly all of the factory applied finish with 2 minor scrapes from rifle rack storage on high points of frame. The factory stocks are the finest we have observed and are nearly new with several very minute impressions from over 100 years of storage. The action is crisp and appears to have seen little to no use. A finer example would extremely difficult to obtain. C&R*