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Parts for arms of pre-1899 design. Components only — we never sell a firearm.

Early Repeater

Winchester Bolt Body

The main reciprocating component of a bolt action.

The reference

Documented on this arm

  • Winchester Parts Bolt Body

Interchange

What a Winchester bolt body also fits

No interchange has been recorded for this part yet. Butch Schoeller writes these notes only from parts he has handled — a blank here means nothing has been checked, not that everything fits.

From the bench

Availability

Stock

No bolt body for the Winchester at the moment

Almost everything here is one of a kind, so it turns over item by item rather than in runs. A wanted listing is the reliable way to hear when the right one surfaces — and it is also what tells Butch which parts are worth making next.

Put it on the wanted board · Everything for the Winchester

How the mechanism works

Plates & drawings

6 plates

Original patent drawings for this mechanism, filed by the people who designed it, with every component called out and numbered. They are grouped by how the part works rather than by which arm it came off — the classification that put them here names the mechanism and says nothing about the gun.

Breech-loading fire-aem — US188111A sheet
Breech-loading fire-aem — US188111A sheetPublic domain / openly licensed
Breech-loading fire-arm — US245779A sheet
Breech-loading fire-arm — US245779A sheetPublic domain / openly licensed
Breech-loading fire-arm — US261648A sheet
Breech-loading fire-arm — US261648A sheetPublic domain / openly licensed
Breech-loading fire-arm — US295437A sheet
Breech-loading fire-arm — US295437A sheetPublic domain / openly licensed
catfet — US474289A sheet
catfet — US474289A sheetPublic domain / openly licensed
catfet — US474289A sheet
catfet — US474289A sheetPublic domain / openly licensed

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