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Old 11-19-2017, 02:44 PM
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For the life of me, I do not remember who, but some member of the SWCA displayed, if I recall, a pair of gold inlaid and engraved Winans revolvers at the SWCA Annual Meeting in St. Louis in about 1986 or 87, or thereabouts. We did not call it a symposium yet.

Those revolvers looked as if they had just left the factory, which was unusual since Winans actually used his guns.

I think I also recall reading that Winans was the first to use illuminated sights on his revolvers.

In any event, David Carroll is correct. Winans' revolvers were often engraved with the caliber, the type of match, and sometimes even the distance at which it was zeroed, so he could use the correct revolver for the distance at which the target was set.

He was a millionaire at the time, and I recall that he had many, varied interests.

Here is a short, but interesting footage of Winans:

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