Herb Parsons Winchester Model 71 from "Winchester '73" | The Gun Vault #6 - Cody Firearms Museum

[@thatsthewayitgoes9]

Great presentation. Thanks

[@DavidNefelimSlayer]

Great Movie.

[@edgalaxie]

I have one of these rifles. It was my grandfather's, and was made in 1937. Yes, I shoot it...yes, I reload for it (because you really do have to!), and I've taken three elk with it. Three shots, three elk. It still does the job it was designed to do!

[@daveybass655]

I like this chic. She is guns...

[@flipflopsguy8868]

I'm watching Winchester 73 at the moment and I'm wondering where's the "Winchester "73" from the Movie ?

[@leonardcollings7389]

There were actually three guns used for the 1 of 1000 rifle in the movie. None of them were real 1 of 1000 guns. They were all standard guns that were sent back to the Winchester factory and dressed up to look like 1 of 1000 guns for the movie. Rock Island Auctions, in 2007 or 08 auctioned off one of the three movie rifles, as Driftwood mentioned. The movie rifle they had to auction was a 1 of 1000 however it was chambered in 38 wcf... one of the movie guns is reputed to be on public display at the James Stewart Museum in his hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania; I do not know if this museum went out of business.

[@chrischiampo7647]

😮😮😮 I’m On The Way To Wyoming 😀

[@JohnSmith-gq9gn]

Did you get there yet?

[@raulmorales9967]

Great movie and a nice 71 Winchester,Had mine for almost 20 years,Mine was made in 1957.

[@jer901]

I have a Model 71 Deluxe, which is what the Herb Parsons gun is. It's the only production rifle ever chambered in .348 WCF, a cartridge far more powerful than the .44-40 cartridge of the Model 1873. If you have one, and want to shoot it much, you better be reloading because ammunition is 1) hard to come by, and 2) very expensive when you do find it. Recoil is substantial but manageable. While for a museum piece all those autographs are cool, I would never butcher up such a beautiful rifle with autographs and that disk.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

Lucky dog! I hope you're a reloader, and that you at least occasionally dust off that little beauty for some range time or (better yet) for some big game hunting.

[@aaronwilcox6417]

Incredible. I've got one of these rifles. Unlike the Winchester 73' that fires mild revolver cartridges the big model 71 uses a powerful 348 cartridge that's a real rifle cartridge and it's not playing around. It's the finest leveraction but still it's mind blowing that a full power rifle round was used in exhibition shooting.

[@Melcop1886]

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe he used light target hand loads.

[@Win94ae]

Very cool! Thank you!

[@WORRO]

Very cool!

[@robertvisnaw6914]

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[@patmurphy3410]

They sure do make em purty in Wyoming

[@hoplite101able]

I loved that movie.. thank you heaps for posting this and hopefully soon ,I'll leave suburbia Melbourne,Australia and visit Wyoming..

[@vajake1]

That is so neat! I had no idea that is how they filmed those scenes! It is a great pleasure to learn these fascinating things about firearms! Thanks so much for posting these!

[@Bayan1905]

I can imagine being Jimmy Stewart and having that Winchester 71 getting touched off nearby.

[@LordEagle]

Awesome !! 👍

[@BFerry10]

Great video. I hope to go there in the not too distant future.