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Is there Winchester 335 and if so what is it and it's value in good condition? nt

April 1 2005 at 2:21 PM
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MDriskill
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152.163.100.132

confusing numbers

April 1 2005, 3:51 PM 

The only airgun I know of bearing the number "335" is by Anschutz, an excellent medium-power barrel-cocking sporter with a locked breech. It was a contemporary, and competitor, of the FWB 124. There were a couple of versions of it, the latter sold here by Crosman as the "Crosman Challenger 6500."

However, I suspect that you are looking at instead, a Winchester model 333. This is a re-badged Diana model 65, a barrel-cocking, recoilless match rifle, also with a breech locking lever as luck would have it.

Along with a wide variety of Diana sporter airguns, these were imported by Winchester approx 1969 to 1975. A few examples of the Diana model 66 (same action, different stock) may also have been sold under the Winchester 333 name, and the 66 stock was sold by Winchester as a replacement component.

In really nice shape a 65/66/333 is about a $400 gun. It is typical for these to need rebuilding, the original piston seals have a definite propensity to disintegration.

Pictured below, an Anschutz 335.



The 333 has similar lines to the slightly earlier Diana model 60, seen here.


 
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4.229.36.185

What you might wanta do...

April 1 2005, 6:44 PM 

is find out if it's really a 353 or 333, or if the guy is completely confused.

 
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He said it was definitely a Winchester.

April 4 2005, 5:21 PM 

He said it must have been a 333 and that it looked like the bottom picture in the set of two guns Mike posted. It had the the same stock and sight and had a lot of grease on it. The owner of a gun store ask me about it and said it was in a collection he looked at. The owner of the collection wanted to get an idea of the value of his guns for his family in case he passed away. I stop in the store quite often to keep in touch with him. He rebuilt a Zimmerstutzen for me and has a couple Zimmerstutzens of his own. He said thanks for the help.

 
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