Winchester had been sitting on Browning’s Auto-5 shotgun for a couple of years when Browning brought the rifle to them. After helping put Winchester aright by creating many wildly popular arms for them, the company turned its back on him. John Browning walked a hard road trying to bring these ideas to fruition. Although the Model 8 rifle was an engineering dead-end using a long-recoil action, it proved a self-loading rifle could be accurate, reliable and durable firing cartridges suitable for any game in the Americas. It would take a couple of more decades and a World War before the bolt-action’s ascendance was assured, and 100 more before the self-loader’s ascendancy was similarly assured. Some still used muzzleloaders, and the bolt action was having trouble making inroads. Strikingly futuristic-looking even today, the Remington Model 8 must have come as a shock to sportsmen of the early 20th century who had long gone afield comfortably armed with a lever-action or single-shot rifle.
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