Posted February 26, 2018 2:00 pm by Comments

By David LaPell

The CAI PW87 is a modern take on the classic lever action of the Winchester 1887  (Photo: David LaPell)
Few of us can forget the scenes in the film Terminator 2 where everyone’s favorite cyborg opens up on his more advanced rival with a shotgun few outside of some collectors had ever seen. Instead of a pump shotgun we were treated to seeing Arnie levering rounds into the chamber. Of course, much to many shooters dismay when the learned the gun used, the Winchester 1887 was made before smokeless powder shells and no one at that time produced a replica.
Times of course have changed and now there are a couple different variations out there, but first you have to understand the original and the history behind it.
You can thank the legendary John Browning for the design of the 1887 Winchester. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
The 1887 Winchester was designed by the legendary John Browning, but it was a gun by many accounts that he didn’t want to make. Browning was in the process of trying to make a pump action shotgun but lever action designs were all the rage as of 1887 and the powers that be at Winchester insisted on a lever

Source: Guns.com

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