This is the first time shooting my Great, Great Grandfather's 1873 Winchester lever-action 44.40 since around the time I first received it. Upon inheriting it I had taken it to a gunsmith and he did a thorough cleaning and inspection. I then spent several weeks of evenings cleaning it with gun oi and 0000 steel wool before eventually running about three boxes of shells through it.
It has been with me across the country and in good times and bad, and as much as I could have used the money at times, the thought of selling it never crossed my mind.
This is the only thing my Grandfather, Robert M. Crossland. willed to anyone. Traditionally it has been handed down to the first grandson, making me the third person to own this rifle.
I don't have any information on the original owner or how he acquired it, other than that he is the one who placed the strike anywhere matches in the trap door in the buttstock, and that it was primarily used for hunting deer. Per the serial number the rifle was manufactured in 1892.
I inherited the rifle when I turned 18 about a year or so after my Grandfather had passed away. Please do not bother to ask, it is not now, nor will it ever be, for sale, it's only mine so that I can pass it down to our new Grandson, Kyren, when he turns 18, or after I pass away, whichever comes last, and his to pass on to his grandson, or granddaughter.
It is a beautiful rifle, and I am honored to own it, at least until it's Kye's turn...
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