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8 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

A Winchester 73 with a forearm length magazine tube.

 

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Hombre#Winchester_1873

How many rounds does it hold?

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Around 6 or 7.

 

Winchester did custom orders. If you were willing to pay for it,  they'd make it the way you wanted it.  Barrels 14 to 30+ inches, half, 3/4 or full mag tubes, etc...  Then there were the One of One Hundred and One of One Thousand guns that were available.

 

Shot with a guy in the late '90's that had an original '73- 28" rifle with a full length mag tube in .38WCF.

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Hombre is one of my favorite  movies.I got to see the actual  rifle at WR a couple  of years ago. 

According to the current owner,that rifle is  one of a kind ,there are no others like it.

Looked like a home gunsmithing project,pretty rough,but looks like something you'd  see out in the rough country.

I thought it was pretty neat.

Choctaw Jack 

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