The last pre-64 Winchester catalog! What's odd in this picture?

[okcorral1881]

Hello to all,

This is a 62-63 Winchester catalog, for many the last of the real Winchesters.
On this catalog featured a rare picture of 19 Texas rangers..but can you see what's odd?

OK

 

[smitty091]

What do Texas Rangers have to do with Canada?

 

[blargon]

The tall fellow in the black shirt/white tie (5th from right) is holding a Krag bolt action?

 

[west250]

Look like 1895's they're sporting. What do I win?

 

[okcorral1881]

Look like 1895's they're sporting. What do I win?

Nothing, blargon won.......faster than I thought!!!!!

 

[Pathfinder]

good catch...seen that right away, was wondering why the hell a bunch of guys with marlins on the cover of a Winchester Catalog.

 

[Boomer74]

The guy to the left him isn't carrying an 1895 either, I don't think...

 

[Calum]

Funny...I thought photography was better in 1963.

 

[H4831]

This may have been the time period when the US Army used the 30 Krag and the 95 Winchesters were the same calibre, 30 US.
That one feller just didn't like them danged lever guns!

 

[SuperCub]

Nothing, blargon won.......faster than I thought!!!!!

Blargon show off.


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[Sun_and_Steel_77]

And here I was thinking the oddity was the 11 year old mexican boy on the far left of the second picture!

I got one of those stars out of a cracker-jack box once when I was a kid.
Are they still allowed to sell popcorn in a cardboard box with a small choking hazard included?

 

[Go4snypr]

only in Canada, in the US you cant even have a kinder surprise.

 

[SuperCub]

And here I was thinking the oddity was the 11 year old mexican boy on the far left of the second picture!

That's Blargon. How else would he know the answer?


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[madtrapper143]

Those are not Texas Ranger badges. I would wager they are Arizona Rangers who were issued '95's in .3040 Krag. (.30 US ARMY)

Darryl

 

[blargon]

Blargon show off.


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Wasn't hard that big chunk of steel on the side gave it away...

 

[okcorral1881]

We have another winner!

Those are not Texas Ranger badges. I would wager they are Arizona Rangers who were issued '95's in .3040 Krag. (.30 US ARMY)

Darryl

Hello Darryl,

I never paid attention to the badges but mostly the guns and what Winchester wrote about the picture. After reading your post, I did a research and you are right and Winchester was off!
The picture Winchester used was cropped from an Arizona Rangers picture from 1903. There were a total of 26 officers in 1903, their Captain was Burton C. Mossman. Infos found in a book by James Harvey McClintock in 1913.
Here is the original picture and congrats again! Now I just have to break the news to Winchester!

 

[madtrapper143]

31 years as a law officer gives you an eye for badges...

Darryl