New Winchester 71

[870TC]

Winchester is making the 71 in 348 win again. YEE HAA!!!!

[jtaylor1960]

Details 870! You can't just say something like that and keep us haning.

[Bullshop]

Prolly just another re run like done by Browning in the 80's.
Same maker bigger price!
I would like to see them do what Winchester should have done from the beginning, offer it in other chamberings.
How about factory 450 and 50 AK's or a 416/348. They could even veer from the 348 case and include many calibers on the 45/70 case like the 33 Win comes to mind or 38/56. Maybe even a new cartridge like a 35/70.
Lots of things that could hold our interest.

[jtaylor1960]

I would like a 375 Alaskan.

[870TC]

http://www.winchesterguns.com/library/articles/detail.asp?id=292

Go to the bottom of the page on the left, click the Shotshow 2011 specials.

[jtaylor1960]

It looks like they put one of those damn tang safetys on it.

[peerlesscowboy]

It looks like they put one of those damn tang safetys on it.
...........and a rebounding hammer I suspect? Courtesy of the legal department :violin:

[chuckbuster]

I'll stick with my original...

I do fancy one of them thar '92's though!

[armed_partisan]

I don't own a single Winchester of any vintage. Not because Winchester has never built a gun I desired, but because they have always been prohibitively expensive. This applies to the Miroku Model 92's, and the 95's, and it will now apply to the model 71 as well, I'm sure. Davide Pedersoli is producing a Model 86/71 in .45-70, and the question was "Why don't they offer it in .348?" Well, apparently, it's because those ones are being built for Winchester.

[Tazman1602]

Man I *almost* got excited about the Model 92 Trapper carbines..................right up until the part where I read the price.

$1,000 + for a blasted lever action carbine? I can live without it....dammit.

Art

[peerlesscowboy]

Man I *almost* got excited about the Model 92 Trapper carbines..................right up until the part where I read the price.

$1,000 + for a blasted lever action carbine? I can live without it....dammit.

Art
:veryconfu I can remember when a brand new Winchester mod 94 .30-30 carbine could be bought for just under $100 :groner:

[missionary5155]

:veryconfu I can remember when a brand new Winchester mod 94 .30-30 carbine could be bought for just under $100 :groner:

Good morning
Was that back when a New Chevy could be bought for $2500 ? I am disgusted with the prices too... but what value has the US green back around the world. And how much excise & fedral Gun tax is involved today. Was not much back in the mid 60´s when a bluebery/apple picking ( no more asparagus) young kid in SW Michigan began dreaming one day to buy a real rifle bigger than a .22 Winchester m 514.

[bigbear]

Is there a projected price?

[Don McDowell]

It's not a regular run, it's only a SHOT show special.
They'll only make as many as they get orders for, and there won't be any more unless there's enough demand for them.
There's several good rifles they have like that on the website. Click on the shotshow specials tab.

They are however bringing the 94 , 92 and 86 into regular production.

[Tazman1602]

Prices listed were between $1080 and on up depending on which model you were looking at.

Too rich for my blood. If I had that much I'd buy a new Smith wheelgun..............

Art


Is there a projected price?

[C A Plater]

It's nice to see the folks at FN bringing back some classics under the Winchester label rather than the Browning. Probably made by Miroku and the the one 92 I have shows superb workmanship. Locks up like a bank vault and the action is very smooth. Not sure my budget would stand a 71 although I have wanted one for years but the trapper 92 in .357 speaks to me too.

[Tazman1602]

It wouldn't appear so Don:

http://www.winchesterguns.com/products/catalog/category.asp?family=022C

Listed on the Winchester site with prices. Let me know if I am wrong, considering selling one of my other guns because that '92 .357 is calling to me.......

Art



It's not a regular run, it's only a SHOT show special.
They'll only make as many as they get orders for, and there won't be any more unless there's enough demand for them.
There's several good rifles they have like that on the website. Click on the shotshow specials tab.

They are however bringing the 94 , 92 and 86 into regular production.

[Don McDowell]

The 71 and that 92 trapper are shot show specials, and only in how ever many orders they get this week in Vegas. (fortunately this is one of those things that happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas)
They have had the other 92's,94's and 86's listed as catalog items for a couple of weeks now.
The msrp at first glance appear spendy, but then do a little cyphering as to what the street price will come to after the initial rush to get em goes by, and then put that up against the 18$ they cost in 1916 , and they're a better buy in relationship to wages than they were a hundred years ago....

[Blake Stephenson]

I had the SHOT show model 71 in my hands today and it does not have the rebounding hammer or the tang safety. It does have the half cock safety. It also has the nub of the safety on the tang but I couldn't get it to move so I believe it is a filler. Buy one and convert it into whatever you really want like my 50/110.

Blake

[pricedo]

...........and a rebounding hammer I suspect? Courtesy of the legal department :violin:

And the lawyers in the legal department can buy their "nanny knows best", safetied up junk!
The Winchester company has been reduced to a rump of it's former self yet they still retain their old arrogance.
I'll buy from a company that will sell me what I want.
The Pedersoli company sold me a beautifully built and accurate model 86/71 without a tang safety or rebounding hammer.

[OverMax]

I can remember when a brand new Winchester mod 94 .30-30 carbine could be bought for just under $100 I paid $52.00 for my first one brand new. Ah yes!! those were the days._:-P

[smokeywolf]

I just hope this means I can get 348 brass easier and cheaper in the not so distant future.

348 is a great cartridge. Greater diameter almost always translates into lower velocity. I think the folks that can't be satisfied with a 220 or 250 grain projectile going downrange at 2300 to 2500 feet per second need to look to the modern guns and forget the classics.

smokeywolf

[rintinglen]

Smokeywolf, Midway has Winchester Brass in stock right now. Along with Hornady bullets. The 220 grain RCBS boolit mold, though, is backordered till nearly Christmas.

[smokeywolf]

I've purchased 2 or 3 bags of 348 brass from Midway. It's just too expensive to get serious and stock up.

smokeywolf

[rintinglen]

I feel your pain. I got a very good deal on a 1951 Model 71, but between bullets, brass, dies and a custom mold, I have tacked about three hundred bucks on to the price of my "good deal."

[WINCHESTER348]

hi every one am looking for ammo for 348 win , can someone help me get some

[WINCHESTER348]

win 348 ammo required, can you please give me an idea where to buy

[ajjohns]

Try Buffalo Arms. I believe they have what you'd need for any obsolete ammo or brass/bullets.

[Don McDowell]

win 348 ammo required, can you please give me an idea where to buy

Grafs and Midway both show out of stock but backorders ok. Cabela's shows some buffalo bore instock.
Keep an eye on the major mailorder places, it should be coming soon as it's mostly a seasonal (hunting season) item.
All the major supply houses show reloading components instock, so with a bit of help from your friendly reload manual you could build your own for considerably less than the factory stuff.

[runfiverun]

winchester makes it.
i have a box i paid 63.00 for a couple of years back.
i don't have a 348 anymore.
but i could reload for it for something like 40 cents a round not 3.00 a pop.

[OverMax]

I suspect this new model 71 being anticipated by many will indeed be spendy'ier than thought. The way I see it. If you can afford this 348. You should be able to pay the 3.00-3.75 per pop as well. I myself have a pre-64 64. But its a 32 Special. I dearly love those lever rifles here. But not at a price that inhibits my eating.

[pricedo]

I suspect this new model 71 being anticipated by many will indeed be spendy'ier than thought. The way I see it. If you can afford this 348. You should be able to pay the 3.00-3.75 per pop as well. I myself have a pre-64 71. But its a 32 Special. I dearly love those lever rifles here. But not at a price that inhibits my eating.

Picked up a Pedersoli model 86/71 in 45-70 GOV'T which is a more faithful copy of the Winchester 71 with no tang safety or rebounding hammer & chambered in a more generic caliber that isn't hard to get ammo or reloading components for.

The scarcity of .348 Winchester ammo & reloading components is why Pedersoli decided to chamber it's '71 replica in 45-70 .........a prudent decision.

The price of the Pedersoli is about the same as the Japanese reproduction and the Pedersoli furniture,
fit, finish & workmanship are of course superb.

[OverMax]

pricedo wrote: The scarcity of .348 Winchester ammo & reloading components is why Pedersoli decided to chamber it's '71 replica in 45-70 a prudent decision. The price of the Pedersoli is about the same as the Japanese reproduction and the Pedersoli furniture, fit, finish & workmanship are of course superb
Owning a Pedersoli would be great and a first for me. Plus Pedersoli's decision to chamber there model 86/71 in 45-70 instead of the 348 is very appealing to many BIG Bore enthusiast's. But since the Pedersoli is priced out at $1600.00 at Cherry's. For me that is pretty darn steep, as is that new Winchester 71 also. I'll have to consider a lay-a-way perhaps. But thanks for trying to persuade me into a Pedersoli pricedo. I appreciate the effort Sir.