Here's a very collectible 120 year-old single-shot .22 rifle in Very Good condition. The original wood stock and metal shows small marks of generations of youngsters learning to shoot. A fine historical piece in full working and shooting condition.
The Winchester Model 1902 is a single shot, .22 calibre bolt action rifle with a pull-back type cocking mechanism. It was an improved version of the Model 1900 – a John Browning design. They were built between 1902 and 1931 with over 600,000 being produced. They were aimed squarely at the youth (boys) market, and gave boys a small, light-weight, but accurate rifle with which they could learn firearm skills and hone them as they grew.
The guard is held on by three small screws. There was a butt-plate fitted, Bakelite was the standard but some early ones have a flat steel butt plate.
The barrel was still 18 inches long and tapered, with the 17/32” muzzle diameter. It is thought that they were unused model 1900 barrels left over from that previous model. The sighting was generally the same, but in rifles fitted with the steel butt-plate, an aperture, or peep sight, was fitted, though these are now often found butchered into an open sight, thus making rifles with an intact peep sight a little harder to come by.
These first pattern examples were similarly chambered for black powder rimfire cartridges in the same calibres as the 1900 Model, 22 Short and Long
After about 70,000 of the non-serially numbered single shot rifles were made, the barrel muzzle diameter was increased to 19/32”, to reduce the “whip” in the previously slimmer barrels, and barrel inscriptions changed slightly. Some rifles are chambered in 22 Short, Long and a new loading, the Extra Long, cartridges, still using Black powder propellant. With the addition of the new round the model designation was changed to Model 02 with some other small changes to the barrel inscription and knurling coarseness on the cocking piece.
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