faux Winchester

[clayflingythingy]

On his blog, back when USRA was shutting down its U.S. operations, Mr Bane made mention of a soon to be announced faux Winchester. I haven't heard any more on this. Any update?

[gunman42782]

Any new gun with "Winchester" stamped on it is fake as far as I am concerned.  The new John Wayne Model 92 "Winchester" is made in Japan!   They are making a .22 rifle made in Russia with "Winchester" stamped on it.  As far as I am concerned, they can keep all their foreign "Winchesters".

[Hazcat]

Any new gun with "Winchester" stamped on it is fake as far as I am concerned.  The new John Wayne Model 92 "Winchester" is made in Japan!   They are making a .22 rifle made in Russia with "Winchester" stamped on it.  As far as I am concerned, they can keep all their foreign "Winchesters".

Especially at the outlandish prices they want for 'fakes'.

[gi_mutt]

If you want a faux Winchester w/o the Winchester price you could look at the Pumas by Rossi. They are imported by Legacy Sports I think. They are very nice shooters out of the box. I have a Model 92 in 45LC that I shoot in CAS and it is a great little rifle for under $500.

[Hazcat]

+1 on the Puma.  Got one in 44mag and one in 454/45LC.

[Sponsor]

[canon6]

+2 on the Rossi/Puma.Mine is in 357 and has become my go to guns when I may/have/want to shoot something.I reload two levels of loads for it  160rnfp @ 1100fps, and a 180fngc at north  of 1800fps.You can do a lot with one    Doug

[Hazcat]

+2 on the Rossi/Puma.Mine is in 357 and has become my go to guns when I may/have/want to shoot something.I reload two levels of loads for it  160rnfp @ 1100fps, and a 180fngc at north  of 1800fps.You can do a lot with one    Doug

The 45 I load at about 1400 fps (250 grain) and standard 454 250s launch north of 2100 fps (real THUMPER!)

[Walter45Auto]

my dad had one of the old Rossi model 92's in .45 Colt. (WITHOUT that safety switch on the top, the way John Browning intended it.) It was a SWEET Gun! This guy at the gun show had a whole table FULL of them for $199. We walked the rest of the show, and came back, and he had 2 of them left. One large loop one regular. Dad got the regular one. Dad has said a bunch of times how he'd bought about 10 of them and resold them now. I'd like to get me one of those Legacy .454's.