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My Dad taught me to shoot with his Model 74 and my first Winchester was a Model 69 so that is what I like.

😉Ī lot of collectors seem to gravitate towards the rifles (especially. Maybe I have just been holding a grudge for the last 54 years……I will get over it eventually. 22 or the low-cost new rifles, seemingly overnight they discontinued EVERYTHING except the Model 52 and replaced it with the new-fangled stuff. In 1964 Winchester did not allow anyone to even make a choice between a quality. I don’t consider myself close-minded but I guess I never really got over the shock and dismay of Winchester discontinuing the quality blued steel and walnut Model 69 (among others) and replacing it with the new series of rifles designed primarily to reduced manufacturing costs. Additionally, the ones I have shot had poor triggers (hard to pull) which were not adjustable. But, the same reasons you mention above are the exact reasons I have no love for the 200’s aluminum receiver, pressed checkering, unknown hardwood instead of walnut, “black” receiver finish and of course, some plastic parts. I am glad you are the champion of the 200 series since there should be a collector for every model. I don’t know why, and I haven’t been able to convince myself to add that synthetic abnormality to my complete 200 series collection. I don’t know what wood was used but the deluxe has some figure, as does a few random examples of the rest of the series.n Towards the end of the run, Winchester replaced the forend on the pump model with a black plastic one. The black finish on the alluminum does scratch but wears well. The simple blow back action runs real fast and reliable. Never had a miss feed or failure to eject from any of mine, with any ammo. The 200 series had some terrible advertising with outrageous depiction of American Indians with the rifles. Anyway, a couple of years into the series they added the 255, a 22 mag. It is funny that Winchester, and everyone else, seems to have forgotten all about that gun when they came out with the 9422 as they advertised and called the 9422 the first lever-action 22 from Winchester.

A pump action and the first lever-action modern 22 from Winchester. The difference being a pistol grip pressed-checkering stock of some decent unknown hardwood. They brought out a nice design set of 22’s, the 250 semi-auto right after their plain 150.

The 200 series was Winchester’s effort to get into the affordable aluminum receiver small arms that were taking the market by storm. Nice to see SOMEONE is open minded enough to be interested to learn something about them. I’m a pre-64 as are almost all of my Winchesters. I’m totally ignorant of the Model 255, would like to hear more about it.