The Winchester Model 74 was an American semi-automatic tube magazine-fed sporting rifle produced from 1938 to 1955 by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. One of Winchester's semi-automatic sporting rifles, the Model 74 was marketed as a lower-cost .22 caliber repeater.
History[]
The rifle was introduced in 1938 as a low-priced repeating sporting rifle alongside the Model 63 which had been sold for a number of years now.[1] The Model 74 enjoyed moderate success and was quite popular,[2] with some 406,574 produced by the time it was discontinued in 1955.[3] During World War II, some amount of Model 74s were factory fitted with scopes and suppressors and supplied to the British Auxiliary Units during World War II under the Lend-Lease Program for use in case of a German invasion of Britain.[2][4] The weapon would be succeeded by the Winchester Model 141 in later years.
Design Details[]
The Model 74 is a blowback-operated tube-magazine fed rifle; the magazine can hold twenty .22 Short or fourteen .22 Long Rifle rounds.[1] The magazine is removable and fits through the stock.[3]
Ammunition[]
The Model 74 was chambered in either .22 Short or .22 Long Rifle.[1]The .22 Short variants were only made in the first 2-3 years of production and are much more rare than those chambered in .22 Long Rifle.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c4/8a/2c/c48a2c6454fd83e400b72fe177e7bd64.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30029779
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/2016/07/featured-gun-winchester-model-74.html
- ↑ https://www.rifleman.org.uk/Winchester_Auto_and_Winder_%20rifles.htm