For sale is a Winchester Model 1905 semi-automatic rifle in .35 Winchester Self-Loading. Serial number- 578. Manufactured in 1905! This first-year production Winchester rifle is in good overall condition but has spots of surface rust. There is also a number scratched in the bottom of the trigger guard. It comes with an original 5-round magazine. The Winchester Model 1905 (also known as the Model 05), is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company beginning in 1905 and discontinued in 1920. This rifle loads cartridges from a 5 or 10-round capacity, detachable box magazine located immediately forward of the trigger guard.

Notably, a Model 1905 in .35 WSL was used by Harry Payne Whitney on an arctic expedition. The rifle proved reliable in extremely low temperatures but was insufficiently powerful for taking large game such as musk ox. It again served a pivital role in history. As WWII was quickly drawing in the United States in 1941 the US Army held a competition for a light rifle, Winchester designed the legendary M1 Carbine for submission into the carbine. Winchester designers were able to adapt the Model 1905 trigger group and magazine for the trials rifle which saved on research and development time. By the end of the US had entered WWII and production of the M1 Carbine needed for US troops.
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Barrel Length: 22
Bore condition: Fair
Year Manufactured: 1905