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Interested in a 338 Winlite that has a blind magazine.Read somewhere that the first production McMillan stocked Winlite's have no floorplate.Is this correct?

Not sure about first production winlites vs later, but some did have floorplates and some didnt in both the featherweight and classic configs.

The early production rifles did have bling magazines

Not all the Winlites had McMillan stocks either. Some had Brown Precision stocks. It is a Classic or Featherweight stock?

Sporter stock,blind magazine.Can one tell a Brown or McMillan?

Got one in the store I work at in .300 Weatherby with floorplate, but do remember one in FWT configuration in '06 that did not.

I have a 280 FTW with McMillian stock and floorplate.

I looked up the year of manufacture once, be damned if I can remember it. Late 80's

G17938xx would be 1985.Anyone know the first year for the Winlite's?

G179xxxx should be ‘87.

That stock pictured is a McMillan.

‘86 for first year best I’ve been able to tell; maybe a few snuck out in late ‘85? The relationship with Brown ended when usrac filed for bankruptcy in January 86, per Mark Brown. And his recollection was they only made “perhaps a thousand” for Winchester.

AK is right. That is definitely a McMillan. I've owned a couple of the Brown stocks and a couple of the McMilan featherweights. One of the Browns was a blind mag and one had a floorplate but the McMillans I had were all floorplate versions, including the one I still own. The comb is higher on the brown stocks but I do like the McMillan design above. That said, I prefer McMillan featherweight winlite stock over that one. It's a shame McMillan won't make them anymore.

Thanks for the info.

Here are the three iterations of winlites.
Top to bottom:
Brown - late ‘85/early ‘86?

McMillan magnum winlite LA mag chamberings (painted)
Later sold as McMillan Winchester classic

McMillan featherweight - LA standard chamberings (painted&new pad)
Later sold as McMillan Winchester featherweight

I dig that bottom one AK. Might need to find one of them for my little Classic 7-08.