Winchester Model 1890

The Winchester Model 1890 was a pump-action repeating rimfire rifle produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company from 1890 into the early twentieth century. Winchester asked John Browning to design a replacement for the Model 1873, whose rimfire version had never been popular, and a patent for the new design was issued to John and Matthew Browning on June 26, 1888. It was the second successful repeating slide-action .22 rifle, narrowly behind the small-frame Colt Lightning Carbine, and became the most successful repeating rimfire rifle Winchester made for general shooting. About 849,000 were produced between 1890 and 1932, after which the Model 62 replaced it, and the last stock was cleared in 1941. It had a 24-inch octagonal barrel and an 18-inch tube magazine under the barrel and was chambered for .22 Short, .22 Long, .22 Long Rifle and .22 Winchester Rimfire, each rifle feeding only the round stamped on it. It was long the standard shooting gallery rifle and earned the nickname gallery gun.