Other than the checkering change on both guns, there were no other wholesale changes to either the Model 88 or the Model 100 in 1964, so the easiest way to recognize pre and post '64s is by the checkering alone. The cut checkering was used prior to 1964 and, as a cost cutting method, the basket weave pattern after 1964. The same two checkering patterns, one a hand checkered point pattern and the other a fancier basket weave impressed design, were used on both rifles. It too, wears a one-piece stock of very similar design, except that the semi-auto has a fuller forend to contain the working mechanism.
Winchester brought out the Model 100 in 1961 as a kind of companion to their Model 88 lever action, which debuted in 1955). That is actually the reason that I originally became interested in this rifle it's classy looks compared to most other autoloaders. It makes the sometimes misunderstood semi-auto look a bit more civilized. It is unlike any other high powered semi-auto in that it wears a nice one-piece stock, just like a typical bolt rifle.
It was last produced in 1973, so many of the newer hunters among us has never seen nor heard of this classy semi-auto. This is a classic Winchester rifle I have enjoyed for years.
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