{"id":64245,"date":"2016-10-04T12:40:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=64245"},"modified":"2016-10-04T12:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T07:17:09","slug":"cowboy-time-machine-uberti-1873-carbine-better-original-full-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/cowboy-time-machine-uberti-1873-carbine-better-original-full-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboy Time Machine: Uberti 1873 Carbine\u2014Better Than The Original? Full Review."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 1873 is a classic design, pioneered by Winchester at its birth and offered as a high-quality reproduction today by Uberti. It gives modern-day cowboy enthusiasts a chance to have a shootable version of this revered design.<\/p><\/div>\n

For more information, visit https:\/\/www.uberti.com\/1873-rifle-and-carbine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It has been called, \u201cThe gun that won the West.\u201d It has also been the title star of a motion picture. Cussed and discussed, this rifle has been the subject matter over countless campfires, hunting camps and saloons. At once praised as being one of the slickest lever actions, it is equally disdained as a weak rifle incapable of handling cartridges with enough power to knock off a mouse. Nonetheless, the Model 1873 Winchester remains an iconic rifle of the American West some 143 years after its debut.<\/p>\n

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The heart of the 1873 design is its toggle-link action located inside the receiver. Note the top-ejection port and sliding dustcover.<\/p><\/div>\n

The \u201973 was the culmination of a 25-year evolution of the lever-action repeating rifle. Beginning with Walter Hunt\u2019s Volition Repeating Rifle with a tubular magazine and a complex and relatively fragile linkage system, the rifle\u2019s patent was purchased by Lewis Jennings a year later. Jennings improved the linkage somewhat, producing a few rifles through the firm of Robbins & Lawrence of Windsor, Vermont, until 1852. Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson bought the patent from Jennings and acquired Jennings\u2019 shop foreman, one Benjamin Tyler Henry, to oversee further improvement and manufacturing, calling their new company the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company.<\/p>\n

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The author has found his own Uberti 1873 to be a great shooter and a treasured possession.<\/p><\/div>\n

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