Thus, in 1866, Winchester introduced the “Improved Henry.” When his company became the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., that rifle became the first to be stamped “Winchester.” In 1873 ...

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company’s Model 1866 was a refinement of the Henry rifle that used a new loading gate in the receiver and a wooden hand guard. No longer would the rifle have to be ...

The next shot ensured that he really didn’t mind. In 1866, the New Haven Arms became Winchester Repeating Arms. They introduced an updated and improved Henry-style rifle called the Winchester Model ...

And I’m no longer seeing racks of used Savage Model 99s and Winchester 94s and old Marlin 336s on sale at pitiful used-gun prices ... At the end of 1866, B. Tyler Henry retired, but to this ...

The earlier Winchester lever-actions (the Models 1866, 1873 and 1876) shared the Henry rifle’s toggle bolt system but offered Nelson King’s patented loading gate on the receiver’s right.