Originally Posted by 450Fuller
.... You can tell where Winchester got the idea for the Model 71.


The credit for the stock design of the 71 (plus the 64 and 65) is usually given to an NRA design team headed by Townsend Whelen. 30-some years before that, his personal 1895 was modified with a similar shaped stock.
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