Winchester Model 1892

The Winchester 1892 has been seen in the following films:

Sooner or later, I'll make pages for all of these movies. -GM

Winchester 1892 - .38-40

Winchester 1892 -.32WCF/.38-40/.44-40/.25-20.

Winchester 1892 Saddle Ring Carbine - .32WCF/.38-40/.44-40/.25-20.

The Winchester 1892 Saddle Ring Carbine with large lever loop used by John Wayne in the film True Grit, similar to the one he used in Rio Bravo. Serial #501892. Pictured with .44-40 shells. (Source: Photocopied from book "The Peacemakers: Arms and Adventure in the American West" written by R.L. Wilson.)

Specifications

• Caliber: .32-20, .38-40, .44-40, .25-20, .218 Bee (in late production)
• Action: Lever Action
• Feed system: 15 Round Tube Magazine

Film

• John Saxon as Luis Chama in Joe Kidd (1972)

• Figures in a Landscape (1971)

• Police officer in Big Bad Mama (1974)

• Scott Plank as Trout Walker in Holes (2003)

• Nick Nolte as Jack Benteen in Extreme Prejudice (1987)

• Different characters in Tom Horn (1980)

• Bandits in Hombre (1967)

• Charlton Heston as Sam Burgade in The Last Hard Men (1976)

• Several towns people in High Plains Drifter (1973)

• Hannie Caulder (1971)

• John Wayne as Jake McCandles in Big Jake (1971).

• Richard Boone as John Fain in Big Jake (1971).

• John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (with large lever tear drop loop) (1969)

• Ernest Borgine in The Wild Bunch (1969)

• Rob Ryan in The Wild Bunch (1969)

• Jack Elam as Snakey in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

• Police officer and a Vigilante in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

• Woody Strode as Jake Sharp in The Professionals (1966)

• Django (1966)

• Vigilantes in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

• Woody Strode as Pomey in The Man Who Shot Libery Valance (1962)

• FBI Agent in The FBI Story (1959)

• The Outlaw (1943)

• Prison Guards in Each Dawn I Die (1939)

• Prison Guards in San Quentin (1937)

• Barton MacLane as Collins in G Men (1935)

Television

• Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain in The Rifleman (with large lever D loop)

• Rough Riders (1997)

• The A-Team (1983-1988)

Video Games

• Red Dead Redemption

"Mare's Leg"

Replica Winchester 1892 "Mare's Leg" with standard lever loop and rounded barrel- .44-40.

Winchester 1892 "Mare's Leg" w/ D lever loop and rounded barrel - .44-40.

A 6 shot cut down rifle/pistol version of the Winchester 1892 rifle was used as a short carbine and called the "Mare's Leg". Though some of the Mare's Legs seen in films are cut from original Winchester 1892s, clones built by Marlin, Rossi and Puma are also seen in chains of commerce. Since the front sight was removed with the cut down of the barrel, many examples of the Mare's Leg remove the rear sight to lighten the firearm. It is not necessary since the gun is a 'point and shoot' close quarters firearm.

Per ATF regulations, any 'pistol' cut down from a firearm that was originally a rifle is a 'short barreled rifle' and subject to all the restrictions of short barreled long guns. The Puma M-92 clone of the Mare's leg is a nearly identical gun, however it was built from the factory as a pistol, so per ATF regulations, it is a handgun and not a short barreled rifle.

Specifications

• Length: ~2 feet[1]
• Barrel length: ~12 inches[1]
• Cartridge 44-40 (actual)
• 45-70: (fictional)
• Action: Lever-action
• Feed system: 6-round Tubular magazine

The "Mare's Leg" has been seen in the following films:

Film

• Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee in Zombieland (2009)

• Woody Strode as Stony in Once Upon a Time in the West (with trigger pin attached to lever for rapid fire)

• Used by Gina Torres in Serenity (2005)

Television

• Used by Gina Torres in Firefly (2002)

• Steve McQueen as Josh Randall in Wanted: Dead or Alive (.44-40 caliber, first with rounded barrel and D lever loop and later with octagonal barrel and tear drop lever loop)

• Seen several times in The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

Video Games

• Final Fantasy VII, as equip-able for Vincent Valentine.

• Condemned 2: Bloodshot