Loads for a 1913 model 94 30-30

Nobody seems to have picked up on the rear sight having graduations marked in metric.
As far as I know, no Winchester sporting type lever action was ever marked in metric.
Also, no 30WCF lever action rifle sights would be graduated to 1000 metres, or yards!
So you obviously do not have an original back sight.
 
Well..... he kind of said in the original post that it had a strange rear sight. With the millions upon millions of winchesters made its conceivable that there might be some out there like that.
 
H4831 said:
Nobody seems to have picked up on the rear sight having graduations marked in metric.
As far as I know, no Winchester sporting type lever action was ever marked in metric.
Also, no 30WCF lever action rifle sights would be graduated to 1000 metres, or yards!
So you obviously do not have an original back sight.
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Actually from what I have been able to learn from online sources and a well informed fellow CGN'er this rifle is part of a special and limited order of rifles sent to France in and around 1913-14 for use by motorized and mounted patrols and that sight is the way it was ordered. It is commonly referred to as a Belgian Congo but I was advised it likely never saw service in the Congo. This rifle has St. Etienne France proof marks and somehow made its way back to Canada and eventually into my hands. I have seen at least two others just like it. It also has factory installed side mount sling swivels. Pretty interesting rifle actually which is why I prefer to leave it original. Of course, as with all of my guns, I believe they should be shot so if that means temporarily replacing the front sight I'm ok with that.

I do plan to try some slower loads with heavier bullets as well though.
 
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That is why i deleted my original post.I had missed that this was a Belgian Congo Carbine.They were one of the few foreign orders that had the rear sights graduated in meters.
 
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