In fact, I thought of it as being basically like my little Ruger 10/22 carbine with a 18.5-inch barrel. That’s because when you pick up a Model 63 it doesn’t feel large at all. Although the barrel is 23 inches long, it doesn’t feel like it. I was honestly surprised when I went to look up the barrel length on the Model 63 prior to our using it last year for the Ballistics By The Inch. Oh, I cleaned it up, oiled the stock and whatnot, but didn’t do anything special. Like I said, the one sitting here next to me wasn’t babied at all before it came into our possession. Performanceīasic, and very, very, functional. But the basic Model 63 is just that: basic. And who knows what kind of other little modifications owners might have made over the years. Oh, you can find some that has a groove for mounting a scope (they weren’t called ‘optics’ back then).
There is a simple low notch rear sight and an extended-post front. It can be taken down by turning a knob at the back of the receiver until the stock comes loose. There is a cross-bolt safety behind the trigger.
You charge the chamber by pushing back on another short rod at the front of the forestock, and the bolt can be locked back with a simple twist of that rod. Easy to use, easy to maintain, nothing to get lost. You turn the rod end in the buttstock and pull it back, feed rounds in through a port in stock, and then push the rod back into the stock and lock it in place with a twist. It has a tube magazine, positioned such that the tube runs the length of the rear stock. The Model 63 is a pretty basic gun by modern standards.
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I tracked down the serial number on the gun and found that it dated to the early 50s. It hadn’t been abused at all, but it also had seen a lot of use and not a lot of care in the intervening decades. Her dad had picked it up used sometime in the 60’s. Or perhaps you might inherit one from a family member – how I came to have one in my safe. And they were well enough made that it is still pretty easy to come across one at your local gun shop, at an estate auction, or online in decent shape. This change came in the 1930s, and from 1933 on (until 1958 when it was discontinued) the rifle was designated the Model 63. 22 Winchester Automatic to the much more common and popular. The biggest of those changes was to reconfigure the gun from shooting the proprietary.
And the rifle design was so good that – with some minor modifications – it was used until 1958. Why didn’t they just call it a simple blowback semi-automatic? Because before the introduction of the Model 1903, nobody had seen such a gun – the design was brand new. Back in 1903 Winchester came out with a new rifle, using something called an “Inertia Delayed Blowback” operating system.
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