Home Forums Lever Action Central Lever Actions - General Any love for Miroku-made Winchester lever guns?

Browning did make some high grade guns when they produced them under their own name. Most of the guns with the Winchester name aren't high grade, but some are. Comparing finishes and wood on a high grade gun to a workaday gun seems like a miscomparison. Obviously, the high grade gun will be finished more nicely. And of course the Winchester marked gun have the safeties purists don't like, and which the Brownings didn't have. I get that, but that's subjective.

As far as the wood goes, the Winchesters have standard walnut on them, not wood for high grade models. But can still look good:


And as far as fit and finish, it's perfectly fine. Better than anything that came out of New Haven in anything like recent history: