This Third Model 1876 was manufactured in 1884 and has a Beach combination front sight, folding ladder rear sight, and tang mounted, short range replacement Vernier peep sight. It has the standard Winchester markings, a smooth walnut forearm, and straight wrist buttstock with crescent rifle buttplate and empty trapdoor compartment. The Model 1876 was the first Winchester to offer chamberings strong enough for big game. The .45-75 was designed to replicate the well respected .45-70 cartridge in a shorter repeating action and was used by many American sportsmen and frontiersmen in the Gilded Age of late 19th century America, including a boisterous twenty-two year old who purchased an 1876 as his first Winchester: Theodore Roosevelt.