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Winchester101

duckbillduckbill Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
edited May 2007 in Ask the Experts
Hello everyone

I have read posts here for a while and now have a question.
A friend at our gun range has A 101 Skeet and Skeet with a
solid nickel reciever. can anyone tell me anything about it?
He says there were very few made in the 70s. any help would be apreciated. Thanks
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get hold of a B B, lots of variations of the 101 listed, some with what the call "Coin Finished Receiver". It's not clear if this is the type of nickel finish your inquiring about?
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  • stetsonstetson Member Posts: 84 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Check out Trapshooters.com and ask your question.There is a wealth of knowledge on that site regarding shotguns.
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  • jnormanhjnormanh Member Posts: 14
    edited November -1
    The Win 101 silver colored receiver is alloy steel which has been nitrided. It is not nickel. They're pretty common, being on all the Pigeon Grade and other grades above field grade. They're not rare. Complete records don't exist, but something like 120,000 were made from 1959 to 1971, and they remained in production well into the 1980s. Total made was maybe 250,000, of which more than half probably had the nitrided receiver. The same gun was also made until a few years ago, both under the Miroku and Classic Doubles trade names.

    I have two, a field grade from 1963, and a Pigeon Skeet from 1977. They're nice guns.

    Lots of them for sale, some still NI, at Dawson's Doubles.
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