Winchester Model 1873

Winchester Model 1873 carbine - 1st generation rifle - .44-40 WCF

The 1873 "Short Rifle" model with octagon barrel - .44-40 WCF

Model 1873 carbine with 20" barrel - .44-40 WCF

Denix replica Winchester Model 1873 with engraving (model 1253/G)

A Mare's Leg cut down from a Winchester Model 1873 rifle with octagonal barrel - .44-40 WCF. This has the tear drop shaped lever loop and case hardened receiver. This original Winchester rifle was cut down for the film Wild Wild West (1999) and was the screen used gun by Will Smith in the movie.

Referred to as the "Gun that Won the West", the Winchester Model 1873 is an American lever-action rifle manufactured by Winchester Repeating Arms. It is one of the most widely produced and famous lever-action rifles ever made, with over 720,000 produced between 1873 and 1923. It was originally offered in the following calibers: .44-40, .38-40 and .32-20. Modern replicas are offered in those calibers and .45 LC as well, though it wasn't originally offered in that caliber.

Something many don't know: John M. Browning used an 1873 to make his first prototype automatic firing gun. After seeing what a muzzle blast could do to a patch of grass, he tested it and found he was correct. The muzzle blast from the gun was heavy enough to be harnessed, so he took a flapper and attached it to the muzzle of the rifle with a rod running to the lever to operate it every time the flapper moved, making the first automatic rifle.

The Winchester Model 1873 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Specifications

(1873 - 1923)

• Weight: 9.5lb (4.3kg)
• Length: 49.3in (125.2cm)
• Barrel length: 30in (76.2cm)
• Caliber: .44-40 Winchester, .38-40 Winchester, .32-20 Winchester, .22 LR
• Action: Lever-action
• Feed system: 15 round tube magazine
• Sights: Graduated rear sights, Fixed-post front sights

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Back to God's Country	Wheeler Oakman	Peter Burke		1919
	Wellington A. Playter	Capt. Rydal
	Charles Murphy	The Half-Breed
	William Colvin	Mountie
	Roy Laidlaw	Baptiste LeBeau, Dolores' Father
San Quentin		Prison Guard		1937
White Fang	uncredited	Bill		1946
Fort Apache		Native Americans		1948
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon		Native Americans		1949
Rio Grande		Apaches	some reused footage from Fort Apache	1950
Winchester '73	Charles Drake	Steve Miller	Custom "One of a Thousand"	1950
Winchester '73	James Stewart	Lin McAdam	Custom "One of a Thousand"	1950
Winchester '73	Millard Mitchell	Frankie Wilson		1950
Winchester '73	Rock Hudson	Young Bull	Custom "One of a Thousand"	1950
Winchester '73	Stephen McNally	Dutch Henry Brown	Custom "One of a Thousand"	1950
Winchester '73	Tony Curtis	Pvt. Doan	Custom "One of a Thousand"	1950
Winchester '73	Will Geer	Wyatt Earp	Custom "One of a Thousand"	1950
High Noon	Gary Cooper	Will Kane		1952
The Tall Men	Jane Russell	Nella Turner		1955
	Clark Gable	Colonel Ben Allison
		Various characters
The Man from Laramie	James Stewart	Will Lockhart	Saddle Ring Carbine	1955
	Alex Nicol	Dave Waggoman
	Frank DeKova	Padre
	Wallace Ford	Charley O'Leary	Short Rifle model
The True Story of Jesse James	John Doucette	Sheriff Doucette	Short Rifle model	1957
	Clegg Hoyt	Tucker
Flaming Star	Steve Forrest	Clint Burton	Rifle	1960
			Seen in Pierce's general store; Rifles and a Saddle Ring Carbine
How the West Was Won	George Peppard	Zeb		1962
How the West Was Won	Lee J. Cobb	Marshal Lou Ramsey		1962
Lonely Are the Brave		Police officer		1962
Rio Conchos	Richard Boone	James Lassiter	With short tube magazine	1964
	Stuart Whitman	Haven
	Jim Brown	Franklyn
	Anthony Franciosa	Juan Luis Rodriguez
	Kevin Hagen	Blondebeard
Minnesota Clay	Alberto Cevenini	Andy Mulligan		1965
Seven Guns for the MacGregors	Francesco Tensi	Harold MacGregor		1966
	Manuel Zarzo	David MacGregor
	Antonio Molino Rojo	Sheriff
		Santillana bandits
Navajo Joe	Nicoletta Machiavelli	Estella		1966
Navajo Joe	Burt Reynolds	Navajo Joe		1966
The Sons of Great Bear (Die Söhne der großen Bärin)	Gojko Mitic	Tokei-Ihto		1966
	Jirí Vrstala	Fred "Red Fox" Clark
	Hannjo Hasse	Pitt
	Rolf Römer	Tobias
	Horst Jonischkan	Adams
	Kati Szekely	Vinonah
	Jozef Adamovic	Tschapa
	Jozef Majercík	Tschetansapa
A Bullet for the General		El Chuncho men		1966
Billion Dollar Brain	Ed Begley	General Midwinter		1967
Welcome to Hard Times	Henry Fonda	Will Blue	Short Rifle	1967
	Michael Shea	Jimmy Fee
Hour of the Gun	Jason Robards	Doc Holliday		1967
Hour of the Gun	James Garner	Wyatt Earp		1967
Hour of the Gun	Monte Markham	Sherman McMasters		1967
Hombre	Paul Newman	John Russell	short magazine	1967
Sabata	Franco Ressel	Stengel		1968
		Stengel's henchmen
		Fake Union soldiers	Uberti replica
The Mercenary	Uncredited actor	Curly's henchmen	Uberti replica	1968
Trail of the Falcon	Gojko Mitic	Farsighted Falcon		1968
Trail of the Falcon		The soldiers, gold-diggers and indians		1968
Will Penny	Charlton Heston	Will Penny		1968
Will Penny	Lee Majors	Blue		1968
The Great Silence		Walter's outlaw	Uberti replica	1968
The Vulture (Le Rapace)	Enrique Lucero	Bosco	Rifle and carbine	1968
	Carlos Cardán	Ruiz	Saddle Ring Carbine
	Augusto Benedico	Calvez	Carbine
		Guerillas	Rifles and carbines
White Wolves (Weisse Wölfe)	Holger Mahlich	Sheriff Pat Patterson	Carbine	1969
	Gojko Mitic	Farsighted Falcon
	Karl Zugowski	Andy Sleek
	Slobodan Dimitrijevic	Cunning Fox
	Slobodan Velimirovic	Strong Left Hand
	Horst Schulze	Collins P. Harrington
		Bandits
Soldier Blue	Donald Pleasence	Isaac Q. Cumber		1970
	Jorge Rivero	Spotted Wolf
Fatal Error (Tödlicher Irrtum)	Gerry Wolff	Ben	Carbine	1970
		Shoshone warriors
And God Said to Cain	Klaus Kinski	Gary Hamilton	With 20" barrel	1970
El Topo	Alfonso Arau	1st Bandit	Carbine	1970
	Alejandro Jodorowsky	El Topo
Lawman (1971)	Burt Lancaster	Jared Maddox	Short Rifle	1971
	Robert Duvall	Vernon Adams	Short Rifle
	Walter Brooke	Luther Harris	Saddle Ring Carbine
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	Paul Newman	Roy Bean		1972
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean		Various characters		1972
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid	Dana Elcar	Allen		1972
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid	Donald Moffat	Anselm R. Manning		1972
The Grand Duel	Remo Capitani	Bounty hunter	with scope	1972
My Name Is Nobody	Henry Fonda	Jack Beauregard	Saddle Ring Carbine	1973
	Geoffrey Lewis	Wild Bunch Leader	"Mares Leg"
Westworld	Yul Brynner	Gunslinger		1973
Chino	Charles Bronson	Chino Valdez	Carbine, European replica	1973
A Boy and His Dog		Rival gang member		1975
The Deadly Tower		Armed Citizen		1975
Posse	Bo Hopkins	Wesley		1975
The Tree of Guernica (L'arbre de Guernica)		Spanish Republicans	May be Italian replica	1975
Keoma	Franco Nero	Keoma		1976
Keoma		Caldwell's henchmen		1976
High Noon Part II: The Return of Will Kane	Pernell Roberts	J.D. Ward		1980
The Long Riders	David Carradine	Cole Younger		1980
The Long Riders	James Keach	Jesse James		1980
The Long Riders	Randy Quaid	Clell Miller		1980
The Long Riders	Stacy Keach	Frank James		1980
Death Hunt	Andrew Stevens	RCMP Constable Adams		1981
Death Hunt	Denis Lacroix	Jimmy Tom		1981
Death Hunt	William Sanderson	Ned Warren		1981
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes)	Jorge Luke	Guerrilla leader		1984
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes)		Guerrillas		1984
Murder with Mirrors	John Laughlin	Wally Markham		1985
Silverado	Jeff Fahey	Tyree		1985
	Kevin Kline	Paden
	Rusty Meyers	Roscoe
	Scott Glenn	Emmet Hollis
	Todd Allen	Deputy Kern
Captain of "Pilgrim" (Kapitan "Piligrima")	Virgilio Echmendia	Hercules		1987
		Slavers
The Quick and the Dead	Sam Elliott	Con Vallian		1987
The Blue Iguana		gunmen		1988
Miracle Mile	Lou Hancock	Lucy Peters		1988
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation			on gun rack in pickup truck	1989
White Fang	James Remar	Beauty Smith	Carbine	1991
	Bill Moseley	Luke
	Pius Savage	Grey Beaver
	Charles Jimmie Sr.	An old Indian
Tombstone	Stephen Lang	Ike Clanton		1993
Wyatt Earp	Todd Allen	Sherm MacMasters		1993
Jonathan of the Bears	Aleksandr Pyatkov	Hunter		1994
	Ennio Girolami	Mercenary
	Knifewing Segura	Chatow
	Franco Nero	Jonathan Kowalski
Legends of the Fall	Aidan Quinn	Alfred Ludlow		1994
Legends of the Fall	Brad Pitt	Tristan Ludlow		1994
Legends of the Fall	Julia Ormond	Susannah Fincannon Ludlow		1994
Mulholland Falls			Seen On Gen. Timms' rifle rack	1996
Last Man Standing		One of the men who massacres the truck convoy		1996
Breakdown	Vincent Berry	Deke Barr		1997
A Life Less Ordinary	Maury Chaykin	Todd Johnson		1997
Switchback		bar patron		1997
Wild Wild West	Will Smith	Capt. James "Jim" West	Cut-down to resemble "Mare's Leg"	1999
Purgatory	Peter Stormare	Cavin Guthrie	Carbine	1999
		A sheriff's deputy
High Noon	Various	Frank Miller's men		2000
Crossfire Trail	Christian Kane	J.T. Langston		2001
Crossfire Trail	Wilford Brimley	Joe Gill		2001
Monte Walsh		Various cowboys		2002
Lone Hero	Robert Forster	Gus		2002
Open Range	Kevin Costner	Charlie Waite		2003
Open Range	Michael Gambon	Denton Baxter		2003
Open Range	Robert Duvall	Boss Spearman		2003
The Last Samurai	Billy Connolly	Zebulon Gant		2003
The Last Samurai	Tom Cruise	Nathan Algren	Trapper model	2003
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	Damián Alcázar	Rodolfo Fierro		2003
		Several revolutionaries
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	Sean Connery	Allen Quatermain		2003
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	Shane West	Agent Tom Sawyer		2003
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins	John Dixon	Big Horse Johnson		2004
Miracle at Sage Creek	Buck Taylor	Buckskin Charlie		2005
Desperation		Vigilantes		2006
Bandidas		Regulators, Mexican soldiers	some with "Short Rifles"	2006
Rapid Fire	Brendan Fletcher	Billy		2006
The Golden Compass	Sam Elliott	Lee Scoresby		2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford		Gang members		2007
Appaloosa	Ed Harris	Virgil Cole	"Short Rifles" with 20" Octagonal barrels	2008
Appaloosa	Jeremy Irons	Randall Bragg	"Short Rifles" with 20" Octagonal barrels	2008
Lone Rider	Lou Diamond Phillips	Bobby Hattaway	Rifle	2008
	Terry Maratos	Curtis
	Marta DuBois	Dora Hattaway
Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf	Dean Simone	Cowboy Gunman 1		2009
Blood Creek	Dominic Purcell	Victor Alan Marshall		2009
Yakuza Busting Girls: Final Death Ride Battle	Chuck Johnson	Yamada		2010
Yakuza Hunters 2: The Revenge Duel in Hell	Asami Sugiura	Asami		2010
Survival of the Dead	Kenneth Welsh	Patrick O'Flynn		2010
True Grit	Jeff Bridges	Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn	"Short" rifle with octagonal barrel	2010
6 Guns	Barry Van Dyke	Frank Allison	Carbine	2010
	Carey Van Dyke	Joe Beall
Killing Season	Robert De Niro	Benjamin Ford		2013
	John Travolta	Emil Kovac
The Dark Valley	Sam Riley	Greider	"Long Range" rifle	2014
The Salvation	Mads Mikkelsen	Jon Jensen	Rifle and carbine	2014
	Alexander Arnold	Voichek Borowski	Rifle
	Jeffrey Dean Morgan	Henry Delarue	Carbine
	Eva Green	Madelaine	Carbine
	Langley Kirkwood	"Man With Beard"	Carbine
Bone Tomahawk	Matthew Fox	John Brooder		2015
Slow West	Jeffrey Thomas	Union Officer		2015
	Andrew Robertt	Werner
Forsaken	Joel Jackshaw	Chadwick's man		2015
The Legend of Tarzan	Samuel L. Jackson	George Washington Williams		2016
The Magnificent Seven	Vincent D'Onofrio	Jack Horne	Long Range	2016
	Ethan Hawke	Goodnight Robicheax	"Short" rifle with octagonal barrel
	Denzel Washington	Sam Chilsolm
	Byung-hun Lee	Billy Rocks
	Chris Pratt	Joshua Farraday	Mare's Leg
In a Valley of Violence	Ethan Hawke	Paul	Saddle Ring Carbine	2016
	Toby Huss	Deputy Harris
Brimstone	Frederick Schmidt	Sheriff Zeke	Carbine	2016
Hostiles	Christian Bale	Capt. Joseph Blocker	Carbine	2017
	Rosamund Pike	Rosalee Quaid
	Scott Anderson	Muny	Long Rifle
Halloween	Jamie Lee Curtis	Laurie Strode		2018
Halloween	Judy Greer	Karen Nelson		2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Rod Rondeaux	The Sioux Chief	Rifle	2018
The Kid	Dane DeHaan	Billy "The Kid"	Carbine	2019
	Chad Daschnaw	Dave Rudabaugh
		Sheriff's deputies
Deadwood: The Movie	Tony Curran	James Smith	Carbine	2019
Dead for a Dollar (2022)		Tiberio Vargas henchmen		2022
Terror on the Prairie	Heath Freeman	Gold Teeth		2022

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Virginian	Stuart Granger	Col Alan McKenzie	Ep 01 "The west vs Col McKenzie"	1970
Star Trek: The Next Generation	Marina Sirtis	Deanna Troi		1987-1994
Lonesome Dove	Tommy Lee Jones	Captain Woodrow Call		1989
Return To Lonesome Dove	Jon Voight	Captain Woodrow Call		1993
Return To Lonesome Dove	Nia Peeples	Augustina Vega		1993
Return To Lonesome Dove	Louis Gossett Jr.	Isom Pickett		1993
Streets of Laredo	James Garner	Captain Woodrow F. Call	Uberti replica, Sporting Rifle with charcoal blue finish	1995
	Ned Beatty	Judge Roy Bean
Rough Riders	Pablo Espinosa	Major Fredrick Funston		1997
Smallville - Season 2	John Schneider	Jonathan Kent	"Heat" (S2E02)	2002
Firefly	Gina Torres	Zoe Alleyne Washburne		2002-2003
Deadwood	Dayton Callie	Charlie Utter		2004-2006
Deadwood	Jim Beaver	Whitney Ellsworth		2004-2006
Deadwood	Robin Weigert	Calamity Jane		2004-2006
Deadwood	Sean Bridgers	Johnny Burns		2004-2006
Deadwood	W. Earl Brown	Dan Dority		2004-2006
Midsomer Murders	Daniel Ryan	Adam Burbage	Uberti replica; S13E3 "Blood on the Saddle"	2010
Breaking Bad - Season 3			Seen on photo; "Sunset" (S3E06)	2010
Top Shot - Season 3				2011
Agent Carter		actors on set	"Better Angels" (S2E03)	2016
Wynonna Earp (TV Series)	Dominique Provost-Chalkley	Waverly Earp	"House of Memories" (S1E12)	2016-2017
The Son - Season 1	Carlos Bardem	Pedro Garcia		2017
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 3		Black Hat Reservation resident	"The Unveiling" (S3E07)	2017
	Daniel Sharman	Troy Otto	"Minotaur" (S3E09)
Godless	Thomas Brodie-Sangster	Whitey Winn	Carbine	2017
	Whitney Able	Anna McNue
	Christiane Seidel	Martha Bishop
	Barbie Robertson	Julie Ann	Carbine and rifle
	Tess Frazer	Callie Dunne	Carbine and rifle
	Scoot McNairy	Sheriff Bill McNue	Rifle
	Kim Coates	Ed Logan
		Residents of La Belle and Blackdom	Carbines and rifles
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 4	Garret Dillahunt	John Dorie	"What's Your Story?" (S4E01), "Good Out Here" (S4E03), "Buried" (S4E04), "Laura" (S4E05)	2018
	Efka Kvaraciejus	Leland's Bandit	"What's Your Story?" (S4E01)
	Lennie James	Morgan Jones	"Buried" (S4E04), "Just In Case" (S4E06)
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 5	Jenna Elfman	June	"Humbug's Gulch" (S5E03), "Still Standing" (S5E07), "Is Anybody Out There?" (S5E08), "Leave What You Don't" (S5E13), "Channel 5" (S5E15), "End of the Line" (S5E16)	2019
	Garret Dillahunt	John Dorie	"Humbug's Gulch" (S5E03), "Channel 4" (S5E09); Uberti replica; "Leave What You Don't" (S5E13), "Channel 5" (S5E15), "End of the Line" (S5E16)
	Danay Garcia	Luciana Galvez	"Channel 4" (S5E09)
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 6	Garret Dillahunt	John Dorie	"The Door" (S6E08)	2021
	Lennie James	Morgan Jones
	Keith Carradine	John Dorie Sr.	"Mare's Leg"; "J.D." (S6E13), "USS Pennsylvania" (S6E15), "The Beginning" (S6E16)
	Craig Nigh	Ranger Hill	"Mare's Leg"; "J.D." (S6E13)
1883	Tim McGraw	John Dutton	Short Rifle, Long Rifle, Half-magazine Rifle	2021
	Sam Elliott	Shea Brennan	Long Rifle, Half-magazine Rifle
	James Landry Hébert	Wade	Short Rifle
	Noah Le Gros	Colton	Short Rifle
	David Midthunder	Two Feathers	Long Rifle
	Tokala Black Elk	Lakota war chief	Long Rifle
	Martin Sensmeier	Comanche Sam	Carbine
		Settlers	Short Rifle
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 7			Seen in armory; "Breathe With Me" (S7E04)	2021
Fallout - Season 1	Walton Goggins	Cooper Howard / The Ghoul	Sawed-off, customized; "The Target" (S1E02), "The Head" (S1E03), "The Ghouls" (S1E04), "The Trap" (S1E06), "The Radio" (S1E07), "The Beginning" (S1E08) Golded replica, "The Head" (S1E03), "The Ghouls" (S1E04)	2024
	Russell Ewing	Sheriff Troy	Sawed-off, customized; "The Trap" (S1E06)
	Christopher Parker	Sheriff Rex

Video Games

Title	Referred as	Mods	Note	Release Date
BloodRayne	Winkesler Rifle			2002
Cross Fire	"Winchester"			2007
	"Winchester-Scope"	with a scope
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West				2010
No More Room In Hell	Winchester 1892		Whereas the game identifies it as a Winchester Model 1892, its actual 3D model is a Winchester Model 1873 Rifle	2011
Payday 2	Repeater 1874		added in The Butcher's Western Pack (2015)	2013
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly	Winchester 1873		with octagon barrel	2014
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades				2016
Hunt: Showdown	Winfield 1873	Basic variant has a short magazine tube, variants with scope, blades on the stock for melee, suppressor, aperture sight, bayonet, and extended magazine tube available		2018
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. GAMMA				2022

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots	Boss, Boss' men		1969
The Dagger of Kamui	Rapist, Cowboy		1985
Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Seen in the spaghetti western Jet watches		2001
Gun Frontier	Shinunora		2002
Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky	Seen in Manami's virtual armory		2010
The Empire of Corpses	Frederick Burnaby		2015

See Also

• Winchester Repeating Arms - A list of all firearms manufactured by Winchester Repeating Arms.