Cimarron Firearms 1873 Short Rifle Lever Action Centerfire Rifle 357 Magnum 20″ Barrel Blued and Walnut Straight Grip
$1,299.99 Tax
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Arguably the most famous rifle of the Old West, Winchester’s first centerfire arm was manufactured from 1873-1919, with more than 541,000 turned out before 1900. A frontier favorite since its debut, this lever-action rifle was produced in a number of variations from short Trapper models and ca…
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Zach –
For the most part, this is a fantastic rifle. The fit and finish is absolutely beautiful, the action works smooth as silk, and the trigger is about 4# with almost no creep. The sights adjust easily, since they use set screws to hold them in place in the dovetails, instead of needing to drift them with a punch or sight pusher. The only issue is a fairly critical one, though… accuracy. My specimen is just not a particularly accurate rifle. I ran a gaggle of different factory loads through it, none of which produced a 5 shot group under 5″ at 50 yards off the bench. Fiddling around with handloads got better results, but it is by still means no tack driver. Best groups at 50 yards are around 2.5″ with 244 Winchester and Accurate Nitro100NF… not the sort of accuracy I was hoping for from a $1300 rifle.