Description

Winchester 1939 Firearms and ammo Catalog

235 pages, about 11″ x 8″, glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice original. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated.

Note: See index, does not include hand tools- hatchets, scissors etc section.

The 1939 Winchester Firearms & Ammo Catalog offers a full panoramic view of Winchester’s pre–World War II product line, combining rifles, shotguns, ammunition, and accessories in a single reference. This restored, full-color reprint (235 pages, ~11″ × 8″) preserves the factory terminology, model nomenclature, and illustration style as originally published, making it a core reference for collectors, historians, and restorers.

Presented at the dawn of a new global conflict, this catalog captures Winchester’s evolving strategies in firearm design, marketing, and ammunition development just before wartime production ramped up. It provides rare insight into how Winchester’s consumer offerings contrasted with its later wartime contracts.

• Comprehensive rifle and shotgun listings: lever-actions, pump, autoloaders, and slide-actions with barrel lengths, stock choices, and finish options.
• Ammunition section covering Winchester’s full 1939 load lines—centerfire rifle cartridges, rimfire, and shotshells—with ballistics data and catalog load designations.
• Accessory pages: slings, cleaning kits, sights, magazine clips, and factory additional options available to dealers and customers in 1939.
• Illustrated model plates showing side views, cutaway sketches, and finish variations for key models like the Model 94 and Model 12.
• Original catalog numbering, retail pricing, and model codes—essential for validation, valuation, and period-correct restoration.

Gunsmiths and restorers will use this catalog to match stock patterns, sight styles, and barrel options to the factory original. Collectors benefit from verifying which variants and accessories were officially offered, while historians gain perspective on Winchester’s peacetime consumer strategy just before the war era.

Whether you are rebuilding a vintage Winchester, writing period-accurate descriptions, or studying the transition from civilian to military production lines, this catalog offers an authoritative snapshot of Winchester in 1939.

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