Winchester SAA in .357 Magnum?

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A friend of mine is telling me a neighbor is selling a lot of guns. He's telling me one of the guns in the lot is a Winchester Single Action Army chambered in .357 Magnum. I can't find any information on it and we're looking to find out what kind of price it could fetch (it's in 99%). If anyone could let me know about this I'd really it.
 
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Your friend is mistaken. Aside from a couple of prototypes they made up to scare the dickens out of Colt, Winchester never made any revolvers. There were the Volcanics, but that is a totally different story.
 
sometimes people get mixed up when viewing other peoples guns.
 
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In 1883 Colt introduced the Burgess rifle as a direct competitor to the Winchester Model of 1873. Winchester then hired William Mason, who had been instrumental in designing the Colt Single Action Army, to design a revolver for them. The revolver at the top of this photo is what Mason came up with for Winchester. It was purely a prototype, it was never produced for sale. The revolver at the bottom of the photo is a double action revolver that has been attributed to former S&W designer William Wetmore. After Colt saw what Winchester was capable of producing, the two companies arrived at a reciprocal agreement that Winchester would stick to rifles and shotguns, and Colt would stick to handguns. These revolvers were never produced to sell.

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The 357 Magnum cartridge was not introduced until 1935, by Smith and Wesson. Colt offered the SAA chambered for 357 Magnum in the same year. Single Action Army is a registered trademark of the Colt company and they will sue the pants off of anybody using that name. I suspect your friend has a Colt SAA chambered for 357 Magnum.
 
To reiterate what the others have said, other than the prototype shown above, Winchester has NEVER made a revolver of any kind. Your friend is mistaken.
 
Aside from the possibly of it being a foreign made copy of a Colt or S&W revolver with the name "Winchester" on it to fool an unsuspecting buyer, there's no other way for it to be what your friend is claiming it to be.
 
Winchester actually made a half-dozen or so revolvers. All of them are in the Winchester Museum except for two. Maybe your friend has one of these two, if so, it's probably easily worth into the tens of thousands of dollars.

One of the two not in the museum is in the hands of a private collector (maybe your friend?), and the other one was sent to Russia in the late 1800's and never seen again.

Good article by a friend of mine on them here:

http://corregidor.org/acgq/web_redi...orum_pages/student of arms/robinson_0804.html
 
Winchester actually made a half-dozen or so revolvers. All of them are in the Winchester Museum except for two. Maybe your friend has one of these two, if so, it's probably easily worth into the tens of thousands of dollars.

One of the two not in the museum is in the hands of a private collector (maybe your friend?), and the other one was sent to Russia in the late 1800's and never seen again.
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Yeah, you think Winchester produced a .357 revolver 50yrs before S&W and Phil Sharpe developed the cartridge???
 
I've seen a Winchester DA revolver at a Vegas collector show.
Don't recall the caliber, but I don't think it was a .357 & it was a much later style than either of the two pictured above.
Looked fairly conventional.
Definitely NOT a single-action.
Denis
 
craigc said:
Yeah, you think Winchester produced a .357 revolver 50yrs before S&W and Phil Sharpe developed the cartridge???
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Reading comprehension obviously isn't your strong point. Feet free to point out where you believe that I said ANYTHING at all about a .357.

Were you referring to .357's in your post #9? You believe that the prototype you were referring to in that post was chambered in .357???
 
Reading comprehension obviously isn't your strong point. Feet free to point out where you believe that I said ANYTHING at all about a .357.
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I'll "feet" free to point you to the OP. "Feet" free to read it.


Maybe your friend has one of these two, if so, it's probably easily worth into the tens of thousands of dollars.

One of the two not in the museum is in the hands of a private collector (maybe your friend?)
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Do I have to point out in your own post where you postulated, perhaps sarcastically, that the OP's friend had one of the six Winchester revolvers you posted about? Or is your own reading comprehension at least that good?
 
I have to admit that the Winchester commemorative Colt SAA is one of their better looking engraved/inlaid sixguns.
 
But, even still, the Colt SAA is marked Colt.

And the Winchester rifle is marked Winchester.

I'm still betting the OP's .357 revolver is marked EAA Windicator!

rc
 
Could be one of the very rare single-action German RG357s that Rohm built under license from Winchester.... :)
Denis
 
craigc said:
I'll "feet" free to point you to the OP. "Feet" free to read it.
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LMAO! My typing obviously sucks (frigging iphone autocorrect seems to have it's own mind!), but how much do you really think that .357 Winchester prototype you posted about in post #9 is worth?
 
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