![]() ![]() Several changes were incorporated a rounded tang - the early cloverleaf, while neat to look at and wonder over, was bad for cracking stocks. ![]() I leave the first three years (55-57) to the collectors - if you want a reliable hunting firearm stick with the 1958 and later M88. From a mechanical point of view the post-58 guns through the end of production just got tweaked and made a little better. The only thing that suffered on the M88 was the downgrade in walnut quality through the late 50's, the lowering of quality in the hand-cut checkering (and machine cut late in the pre-64 era) which bottomed out with the pressed checkering of the post-64 guns. The gun was newly designed to take advantage of the newer methods of manufacturing that were being introduced in the post WW-II era (many that were incorporated into other post-64 firearms at Winchester). The Model 88 is the one Winchester that shouldn't suffer from the Pre-64 / Post-64 comparison. ![]()
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