Greetings,

Thanks for having a look at my listing. We have here a hard one to find these days. A Winchester 1500 Lever Action.

The wood is in great shape.. Nice dark Walnut. The action is crisp (I shot it yesterday.. and it is fun to shoot.. let me tell you).

There are a few bumps and bruises. I bit of surface rust (I point them out).

Im putting in the SCOPE for FREE.. It works fine but with my old eyes.. I cant get it just where I want it. Having said that, I hit 5 shots at 40 feet at a target the size of a quarter!!



I have found a few articles on the 150 so Id rather let the PROs tell you.

"But sandwiched in there from 1967 to 1974 was the Model 150. It featured a walnut-finished plain hardwood straight-grip stock and forearm, and an alloy receiver. It was described as a carbine even though it shared the same 20.5″ barrel length as the Model 250 rifle. List price as of 1972 was $57.95. All told, 47,400 Model 150s were produced. Today, this price tag translates to around $426

.But let’s return to the Model 150. We managed to lay hands on one courtesy of a shooting buddy who rediscovered it resting unmolested in the “wayback” of his spacious gun safe.

The weight and capacity specs on our test rifle are as follows: 5 lbs. and a tubular magazine holding 21 Shorts, 17 Longs or 15 Long Rifles. The open rear sight is step-adjustable for elevation. Thankfully, on ours the step was metal; on some guns, plastic was used. .

Accuracy at 35 yards was as okay as we could manage with the issued open irons. The trigger pull on our specimen was a reasonably non-gritty 3.5 lbs., which helped things more than a little bit.

With 40-grain Federal Champion ammo, our best efforts yielded a slightly over one-inch 4-shot group with an errant 5th round blowing things out another half-inch. Again, this may not sound scintillating, but glass would most likely have shrunk things down considerably.

But once a rough zero was obtained, the Model 150’s true place in the shooting universe became apparent. For rapid-fire plinking at clay birds, soda-pop cans, rocks and metal “dinger” targets, the M150 is about as much fun as you can have without being arrested. Although we shot it with the original iron sights, it cries out for a scope, and fortunately, the receiver is grooved to accept tip-off mounts.

On the used market, the price difference between the Model 150 and 250 is pretty inconsequential. Most I’ve seen have been in the $350 to $550 range. "

Due to the dots of corrosion, I have priced this Fairly at $475.. The last one of these that came out of Winchester was in 1974.. 51 years AGO!

Cash.. Near World Golf in St Augustine