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Remembering the Past: The Winchester 1890 – The Rifle That Built Marksmen
For decades, the Winchester 1890 was the first rifle many young shooters ever held. Whether at a carnival shooting gallery or on the back porch, this pump-action .22 was a trusted companion. Andrew from BTO Range walks through its history, features, and why it remains a beloved classic.
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Remembering the Past: Why the Winchester Model 12 is a Shotgun Legend
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Sit back with Andrew from BTO Range and Training Center as he shares the story of the Winchester Model 12 shotgun in this episode of Remembering the Past. Known as one of the smoothest pump-action shotguns ever made, the Model 12 has a rich history that spans hunting, military use, and even competitive shooting. Andrew walks through some rare finds, including a Model 42 and a beautifully upgrad...
Remembering the Past: Why the Remington 870 is Still King of Pump Shotguns
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Join Andrew as he unpacks the history of the legendary Remington Model 870 Wingmaster, a shotgun that’s been a staple since 1950. Learn why it’s a favorite among hunters and collectors, how to spot key features, and what makes certain models highly sought after. This is more than just a shotgun-it's a piece of American history! Don’t miss Andrew’s tips for identifying and valuing this regal lin...
NEW!! RUGER RXM | BTO Reviews
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Join Andrew, General Manager of BTO Range, as he dives into the details of the new Ruger RXM: the result of a collaboration between Ruger and Magpul! Watch as he takes it apart, highlights its key features, and shares his expert insights on this innovative firearm. Then, Tara joins him at the range for a hands-on first impression, testing the RXM in action. 🔔 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, an...
Remembering the Past: Model 60 Revolver’s California Highway Patrol Connection
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Andrew explores the Smith & Wesson Model 60, a stainless steel pioneer with an intriguing history. From its revolutionary 1965 release to its unique California Highway Patrol markings, this revolver has tales to tell. Learn about rare variations, hidden collector gems, and how these revolvers became part of law enforcement history. Like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more captivating stories ...
Remembering the Past: The Sleeper 3rd Gen Smith & Wesson 3913
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Andrew takes us back, but not too far back, to the late '80s and '90s with the Smith & Wesson model 3913, a bit f a sleeper hit in the gun world. Learn about its features, history, and what makes it a favorite among collectors and enthusiasts. From design tweaks to collector tips, this is your go-to guide for this "vintage" piece of firearm history! If you like what we're doing don't forget to ...
NEW Taurus GX2: Is This $300 Pistol Too Good to Be True? | BTO Reviews
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Andrew and Tara from BTO Range take a hard look at the new Taurus GX2. Budget-friendly, sure-but there's got to be a catch... right? From features to performance, they cover it all. Is this really the best 9mm under $300, or is it all hype? Watch the review and decide for yourself! 👉 Like, subscribe, and ring the bell for more honest reviews! #taurusgx2 #btorange #btoreviews
Remembering the Past: Browning B2000 - A Shotgun That Almost Made It
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Andrew takes us back to the 1970s to explore the Browning B2000, a Belgian-made semi-auto shotgun that marked a shift for Browning with its gas-operated system. From quirky design choices to limited production runs, this gun tells a fascinating story. Why didn’t it become a classic? Let’s find out at the range!
Remembering the Past: Mossberg Model 144 - A Target Rifle Time Capsule
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Andrew takes a close look at the Mossberg Model 144, a post-WWII .22 target rifle with a rich history spanning from 1950 to 1985. From unique sights to quirky design changes, he breaks down what makes this rifle a collector's gem and a reliable shooter. Stick around for some insights into Mossberg's evolution and why small details can make a big difference when evaluating these rifles.
Remembering the Past: The Guns, Bicycles, and Ingenuity of Iver Johnson
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Andrew takes us on a ride through the history of Iver Johnson-a name that meant more than just firearms. From crafting revolvers to manufacturing bicycles, this late-19th to early-20th-century company combined innovation with practicality. Discover the story behind their iconic safety automatic revolvers, the birth of their Arms & Cycle Works, and how they left a lasting mark on American manufa...
HK MR556A4 & MR762A4: Unmatched Precision from HK (Range Test Included!)
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Andrew dives into HK's latest innovation, the MR556A4, showcasing its enhanced features and uncompromising reliability. From upgraded ergonomics to the precision craftsmanship HK is known for, this rifle redefines performance. Don’t miss the live range demo with Matt at the end-see the A4 in action!
Remembering the Past | From Finland to Ithaca: The Rifle That Could Take on a Bear!
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Did you know the Ithaca LSA 55 has roots in Finland and a reputation for rugged dependability-so much so that it could take on a bear? In this video, Andrew unpacks the unique story of this bolt-action rifle, imported briefly by Ithaca and built on the early foundations of Tikka's renowned craftsmanship. Discover what makes this firearm a fascinating piece of history and whether it’s worth owni...
Elite Training for Texas LTC Holders and First Responders | Texas Armed First Responder LTC
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Join Andrew at BTO Range and Training Center as he introduces the Texas Armed First Responder LTC course! This advanced 3-day, 28-hour program is designed for Texas LTC holders and first responders ready to certify as Armed First Responders under House Bill 1069. Discover what sets this training apart, from tactical shooting drills to low-light scenarios, all tailored to meet state-mandated pro...
Remembering the Past: A Look at the High Standard Sentinel
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Andrew from BTO Range dives into the story of the High Standard Sentinel, a rugged and reliable revolver from the mid-20th century. From its origins with Sears to its innovative design by Harry Seafried, this 1956 R101 model has plenty of history to share. Curious about its features, quirks, and collector appeal? Let’s break it down-short, sweet, and packed with nostalgia. Don’t forget to like,...
Remembering the Past: Ruger's Game-Changer - The Single Six
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Andrew from BTO Range takes us on a trip back to the 1950s, exploring the iconic Ruger Single Six revolver. Discover the story behind Ruger's smart innovations that revived the single-action revolver and made it affordable for everyone. From old Western movie influence to the small but powerful design tweaks, Andrew dives into why the Single Six is still a collector’s dream.
Remembering the Past: Dan Wesson - From Revolvers to 1911s!
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Remembering the Past: Dan Wesson - From Revolvers to 1911s!
Remembering the Past: The Winchester Model 24 Shotgun Uncovered
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Remembering the Past: The Winchester Model 24 Shotgun Uncovered
Remembering the Past: Stevens 94F Shotgun with a Monster Barrel! | BTO Range
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Remembering the Past: Stevens 94F Shotgun with a Monster Barrel! | BTO Range
Remembering the Past: The 1965 Winchester Model 70 - A Look at Its Unique Legacy
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Remembering the Past: The 1965 Winchester Model 70 - A Look at Its Unique Legacy
Remembering the Past: High Standard Model B (1941) - A Classic on the Bench
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Remembering the Past: High Standard Model B (1941) - A Classic on the Bench
New HK CC9 Micro Compact - The Smallest HK Yet! Breakdown, First Impressions & Test Fire
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New HK CC9 Micro Compact - The Smallest HK Yet! Breakdown, First Impressions & Test Fire
The Gunsmith’s Bench: Inside the Colt Trooper Mark III (.22 Mag) - Tear Down and Differences
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The Gunsmith’s Bench: Inside the Colt Trooper Mark III (.22 Mag) - Tear Down and Differences
Uncovering the Colt Trooper Mark III .22 Magnum - The Rare Colt Guard Finish
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Uncovering the Colt Trooper Mark III .22 Magnum - The Rare Colt Guard Finish
The Gunsmith’s Bench: Field Stripping the Astra 1921 - 9mm Largo Breakdown
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The Gunsmith’s Bench: Field Stripping the Astra 1921 - 9mm Largo Breakdown
Remembering the Past: Secret Agent’s Sidearm | The Real Bond's Beretta 418
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Remembering the Past: Secret Agent’s Sidearm | The Real Bond's Beretta 418
New Product Review - The Taurus TUC-22 .22LR Pocket Pistol
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New Product Review - The Taurus TUC-22 .22LR Pocket Pistol
Remembering the Past: The Beretta 71 - Mossad’s Sneaky Sidearm of Choice!
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Remembering the Past: The Beretta 71 - Mossad’s Sneaky Sidearm of Choice!
Revolutionize Your Range Time with SIG Connect Smart Targets! 🔥 | Exclusive at BTO Range
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Revolutionize Your Range Time with SIG Connect Smart Targets! 🔥 | Exclusive at BTO Range
Remembering the Past: The Smith & Wesson Model 41 - 10 Years to Get It Right
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Remembering the Past: The Smith & Wesson Model 41 - 10 Years to Get It Right
Sig P226-XFIVE Reserve with Jake and Thomas of BTO | First Look and Features Breakdown
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Sig P226-XFIVE Reserve with Jake and Thomas of BTO | First Look and Features Breakdown
.264 Win Mag, a true barrel burner. Throat erosion was a problem with this cartridge.
I have a J.C.Higgins model 20, 12gauge that was my grandpa's shotgun
A year after Winchester dropped the production of this firearm, they decided (for some reason) to do market study on it The study found that stopping production was the worst mistake that Winchester had ever made!
Any word on the Marlin 39A?
At 13:47 the red Remington pad is factory…. Are you sure ?
Prior to ~1960 the ejector/extractor rod is a right-hand thread.
Smith & Western 🤣
A Sears robot 22 rifle branded Ted Williams made by Remington arms like this video saved my life and my wife's life in a home defense situation when we were attacked and nearly murdered by an armed violent intruder. It wasn't my first weapon of choice but it was my only weapon available. It managed to save our lives.
Very informative Thank you for making this video, now I know some things to look for when buying a used gun.
Post-63... wouldn't it be a second year push-feed if they switched over in 1964? It's very nice! I prefer push-feeds so I'm not trying to be critical, just accurate.
My 20 gauge sporter, dated 1978, sometimes will not reset to fire the left barrel. I had a smith look into it. He sonic-cleaned the trigger group and that worked for a while but it's starting to act up again.
Have you done a video on a788 remington
I use a 7400 chamber brush on M1 Garands. Works great on those as well.
And so what is the correct method
hi, what is the lifespan of an ejector on an 870 Wingmaster. It scares me, I have a 1979 870 Wingmaster in new condition. I don't dare use it too much for fear of breaking an ejector and we can no longer replace it...😱
Mostly they last forever. That said, it's a machine made of parts just like a bicycle or a car. As long as you maintain it properly it will not be an issue. Make sure the barrel is installed properly before you shoot it. Check the ejector spring and housing whenever you clean it. Millions have been made and the percentage of ejectors that have had to be replaced is miniscule compared to those that haven't.
@BTORange thank you for your response. This reassures me. mine dates from 1979 and it is new, it has fired less than 10 shells. I was told that they were among the best years of manufacture so that reassures me. I don't have the Flexitab conversion which arrived in 1980 to avoid blockages in the event of double feed, but hey I don't think it's a real problem
I have a 1957 Winchester model 70 in .257 Roberts
real question is they are making them work well with suppressors but adding one will void the barrel warranty... thats like saying buy this corvette and if you go over 100 your warranty is vioded.
I have my dad's model 24 410 / 22 he had since 1956 for its age stishoots great and just as accurate as the man that can shoot it I've always used Remington 3" #5 and it is full choke 22,long rifle longs,and shorts has side barrel selector for shotgun or rifle
Your information is Not true ! The 1894 in 30WCF Was Never a Black Powder Cartridge. The 30/30 Was a 30 caliber Cartridge with 30 gr of Smokeless powder .
Calm down. Breathe. Yes, the .30WCF was designed for 30 grains of SMOKELESS powder. The .25/35 WCF likewise used smokeless powder. The .32/40 and .38/55 used that many grains of black powder. That nomenclature caused a lot of confusion in the 1890's also. It will be OK.
Great video, and great rifles, thanks for sharing them with us. By the way, I've been to the Cody Museum in Cody, Wyoming several times, great place to visit! JT
Can you make a video for installing the cylinder? I seem to be missing something... maybe rotating to a certain cylinder position or certain hammer position.
Hammer must be at the half-cock position to drop the bolt out of the cylinder window, and the loading gate must be open.
I checked out Ned Schwing's book on the Winchester Slide-Action Rifles: Model 1890 & Model 1906. It's out of print, and in the $170 range for a used paperback. I hope someone brings out a reprint. I have an 1890 third model in WRF. It's a family hand-me-down, and a good shooter. I hope s a publisher reads this, because I'd like to have the book, but maybe for $50 or less.
I wish I still had the one I had as a kid. I loved that little riffle!
If we could only make gun grabbers understand just how wonderful the gadgety, and craftsmanship is with firearms, maybe they would understand our interest in them. And realize that most of us are not crazy like most of them are. I have always loved these types of rifles. I have an old J. Stevens visible loader, and no two pieces were touching when I got it, and after many hours, I now have the ultimate BB gun! It's a lot of fun, and super accurate. Thanks for the great info, and now I'll be after one of those with the outer lock style bolt in wmr If that exists? If not lr will do.
Winchester never made this rifle or any of it's successors (62, 62A) in .22 Magnum. Taurus/Rossi made a clone-ish gun in .22 Magnum.
@BTORange I figured. Thanks for the info.
BSA is outstanding quality manufacturing.
While in the service I was working on a horse ranch on my off time. Found a Winchester 1890 in 22 WRF. Ask the rancher about it, said I could have it. That was back in 1972. I still have and the best I can tell it was made in 1911. Ammo is kind of hard to find, but when I do I pick it up. Have a stock pile now and just keep adding to it
I have a 87D manufactured in 1960 (a year younger than me!) that came from my dad when he passed 40+ years ago. He never shot it much and I haven't up until now. But now I'm getting into it, putting a scope on it and will plink as much as I can. So far everything's working and hopefully given the low round count it'll be good for quite a while.
Loved the 870 and this on the Model 12. Outstanding videos. Are you going to do one on the Ithaca 37? Really nice job on all your videos they are excellent!
Absolutely. As soon as we get a decent representative Model 37 in the shop.
I got one a month ago and I got to say I am disappointed in the finish. The edges around the serial number is not smooth but sharp and snags \ tears a cleaning cloth. The grooves on the sight rail are not evened and the pistol itself does not seemed to have the metal polished before the bluing as I can see milling marks on the barrel. The magazine feels cheap and flimsy compare to the ruger and berretta magazines. Honestly if I could I would get the pistol stripped polished and refinished with the old blue they used on the colt woodsman pistols..
are you the same as the BTO RANGE AND TRAINING IN CONRO TX ??
Love these videos. Please keep it up. By sheer coincidence I bought one of these earlier today in 22 WRF after researching and finding ammo was still available.
Barrel twist for .22 short and .22 long was 1 in 20, twist for .22 LR was 1 in 16, WRF TWIIST WAS 1 in 14.
I remembered the twist was different but didn’t look up the rate. Shorts and longs typically used a 29 grain bullet instead of the 40 grain.
@ the military wanted to convert short rifles to long rifle but was determined that 40 gr wouldn’t be accurate with 1/20 twist
@ My 1890 was in bad shape and when I discovered that my ‘90s serial number gun had a barrel with 1911 patent date on it I decided to put a liner in it. The available liners were 1/16 twist for LR so that is what I put in. I left it 22 Short and it shoots well with the faster twist. Running a Lyman tang sight on it.
I just bought a custom mauser rifle in 257 roberts.Incredible Weatherby quality wood.Timney trigger,poxy bedded,aftermarket barrel. 0:07
Have a Heavy Duck and a 16 gauge. Even with the factory weighted buttstock the Heavy Duck recoils rather briskly! The 16 gauge is a dream to carry and fire.
Great job as always, if possible could you please do a video on the Winchester 1897 Shotgun. Another John M Browning gun design. Your channel is awesome, it’s the kind of stuff I like. Thank you
Great video as always. Will you please do the old school version of the Ruger .44 carbine, semi-auto, tube fed version. It highly resembles the Ruger 10/22 but it’s .44 mag. Thank You .
Looking at a 144- LSB, owner wants 400, too much?
If HK decides to make an upgrade to this model, it would be awesome if the barrel is a little longer and the width should be either 1.1 or 1.2 inches. It would make the CC9 perfect.
My dad bought me a new 183 KE in 1971. I was12 yeaes old. Im 65 now and still own that gun. Ive keep it in great condition, but would not part with it for anything.
Thank you for this video. Based on your explanation I can assume my family has a gen 3 version. Finally answers to family questions.
I inherited from an 1890 wrf from a family member who had it converted to 22 magnum. I've shot it a lot, and I have had no issues with the strength of the action. Feeding is a bit unreliable, and it's not the most accurate. Im not recommending anyone do that conversion, but I've seen it done successfully.
I bought several boxes of recent production CCI 22WRF a couple years ago and they were marked "Not for use in revolvers".
Nice video. Some of the 1890 are just marked as model 90 and have seen conflicting information about the when and why of this. My father collected a few that are now in my cabinet. Four 1890, two 90, and four 1906 with a mix of calibers.
It would be great to these guns made again.👍
I have a second model in .22wrf and third models in .22 long and .22 short. Don't have a .22 long rifle 1890 yet, they are the hardest to find and most expensive of the third models.
.22 WRF sounds like that new .21 something or other that Winchester recently introduced. It'll never be popular but someone will always make limited runs of it because a few guns out on the market are chambered in it.
.21 Sharp. The Big deal with that is strictly bullet Construction. Instead of heeled bullet the 21 Sharpe uses a bullet of slightly smaller diameter set into the case similar to a Centerfire cartridge
@BTORange Ah yes. That's the one. It's interesting but I don't think it's the new thing that Winchester seems to think it is.
22WRF and 22WMR are also non-heeled bullets. Same for 17HMR. Should in theory be more accurate than heeled but 22 short and long rifle seem to do just fine.
My Dad had the m700 bdl in .270 , so I graduated from the Marlin 30-30 to the m700 when I was 12 years old and it's been my favorite rifle ever since.
Big fan of these 24's. Thanks for what y'all do.
One of my model 94's Cereal numbers fall in the years of the no serial numbers So in other words I have an idea of the year of it is there a way to get a definitive year for my carbine
The Polishing Room serial number records are complete. The old list with the blank years during WW2 come from Madis' research on warehouse records. Check winchestercollectors.org . Also, there will be a two-digit date stamp on the bottom of the barrel just ahead of the receiver, but you have to disassemble the front of the rifle to get to it.
When I was young, before TH-cam and computers, I bought rifles without knowing all of these particulars and nuances. Both in Remington 700 and Ruger 77 and only learned of them after I detected problems with the rifles. Particularly the triggers on both. I now own Bergara rifles which I consider to be Remington 700’s done right. Interesting even Weatherby now offers rifles built on the 700 platform in their new 307 series. I appreciate the information, I hope it helps many people avoid pitfalls and mistakes.