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What's going on with the plant closure section? Should things like this just be deleted? --Squirrelfisher 20:29, 09 Dec 2006 (EST)

agh at least you can read this now -- im a little worred about the source however --Davelane 23:24, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

(Can we decide what this article is about? It would help to organize it. Is it only about Winchester lever-action rifles, or does it include their other rifles as well? Why not just write about the company and not rifle?)

This article needs some serious work. I propose creating a Winchester Repeating Arms Company article for the company history, and using this or other articles to describe the guns. -- Scott Burley 09:46, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

I wanted to clean it up, but this article is so badly written, I have no idea how to do it. I could try to translate the German article, but since German is not my native language (nor is English, but my English is much better than my German) it might be hard. -- Sander 17:18, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

ok, I see at least two articles in this document. One is on the acutal "Winchester Rifle" family. The other is on the corporate history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Therefore, for the sake of organization, I'm going to try splitting the two articles.

ok, the article is now split. Part of it remains here, and other half was moved to Winchester Repeating Arms Company. It still feels like its missing a lot of information though. --Moki80 20:47, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I've added quite a bit, but it could use a lot more work. I tried to at least give a brief overview of the main rifle types and general history of the company. The existing article seemed to end with the Model 1873.

[edit] the '92 clone Puma is not Italian made

"Millions of '92's have been made, and although Winchester phased them out several decades ago, they are still being made under the Puma label by an Italian arms maker."

The Puma is made by the Brazilian company Amadeo Rossi: http://www.rossi.com.br/

[edit] Sounds like a line from a movie trailer

"In the movie Babel, two boys test the range of a Winchester rifle in the Moroccan desert, and in an instant, the lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide."

Seriously, does that sound a little off to anyone else? --72.155.176.252 21:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Sheesh. That was put in by the movie's publicity department, wasn't it? Trekphiler 23:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hooking a Marlin

I deleted this:

"Marlin Firearms, also of New Haven, labored for a century as an underdog levergun maker to Winchester's number one. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, the current incarnation of Marlin finally began to outpace its old rival. It is currently the dominant seller of lever action rifles in North America. Its use of side ejection allows for flat-topped firearms, thereby making the mounting of scopes far easier than for traditional Winchesters. This helped Marlin capture more market share as American shooters came to rely more and more on optics. Marlins are also larger and stronger than most of the Winchester line, allowing them to take advantage of revolutionary new magnum-level versions of such cartridges as the .45-70.

While true, it's not about Winchester. If anybody thinks it's worth saving, move it to the Marlin page. --The Rifleman 23:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I agreed, so I copied it over. We'll see how it fares. Gzuckier 15:08, 15 December 2006 (UTC)