Hi guys,
I thought I would post this in this section for those of you who do not frequent the Lever #### thread. As I noted in there, i have not posted anything in quite some time, I find myself very busy with work these days, and everything else it seems that Summer brings a long. But, I managed to snap a couple photos of 1 of 2 old Winchesters I picked up recently. They are not the best photos given they were taken in the dying hours of the day, but it is a very nice rifle, better than these photos show.
I am very proud of this one, it is fairly scarce and special. It is a Winchester 1894 Deluxe Extra Lightweight Takedown rifle with 22" barrel. It has H style PG checkered stocks with 3X wood and oil finish, a hard rubber shotgun buttplate, 1/2 magazine, Lyman tang sight, Platinum Lined 3 leaf Express rear sight and Lyman front. The special thing about the gun is it was shipped to Britain and has several British proof marks on the rear top of the barrel, upper receiver, even on the top of the bolt. It was proofed in London. Seems many of the Winchesters you see that went to Britain as sporting rifles were often in the larger calibers, for expeditions, etc. Maybe this one went Red deer hunting in Scotland, took a stag or two, who knows. Too bad the old guns can't talk. Here are a couple photos. It is hard to tell, but the gun even has lots of nitre blue color left on the loading gate, and a fair bit of case coloring.
As far as this rifle goes, the part I like best is of course the wood, and I do like short rifles. I find wood really makes a gun. This one has a barrel that is 4 inches shorter than standard. The Model 1894 / 94 came standard with a 26" barrel, but shorter and longer ones are out there, just hard to find. I forgot to mention that one of the neat things about this gun - and this goes back to it's life in Britain - is that it also came with two partially full, and when I say partially full I mean 4 cartridges, lol, of Kynoch ammo. Over here we know it as the old 30-30 or 30WCF, but over there it was 7.62x51R. Here is a photo of the boxes. A nice piece of history to have with the gun. I would like to know what game was taken with the cartridges missing from the boxes.
Matt
I thought I would post this in this section for those of you who do not frequent the Lever #### thread. As I noted in there, i have not posted anything in quite some time, I find myself very busy with work these days, and everything else it seems that Summer brings a long. But, I managed to snap a couple photos of 1 of 2 old Winchesters I picked up recently. They are not the best photos given they were taken in the dying hours of the day, but it is a very nice rifle, better than these photos show.
I am very proud of this one, it is fairly scarce and special. It is a Winchester 1894 Deluxe Extra Lightweight Takedown rifle with 22" barrel. It has H style PG checkered stocks with 3X wood and oil finish, a hard rubber shotgun buttplate, 1/2 magazine, Lyman tang sight, Platinum Lined 3 leaf Express rear sight and Lyman front. The special thing about the gun is it was shipped to Britain and has several British proof marks on the rear top of the barrel, upper receiver, even on the top of the bolt. It was proofed in London. Seems many of the Winchesters you see that went to Britain as sporting rifles were often in the larger calibers, for expeditions, etc. Maybe this one went Red deer hunting in Scotland, took a stag or two, who knows. Too bad the old guns can't talk. Here are a couple photos. It is hard to tell, but the gun even has lots of nitre blue color left on the loading gate, and a fair bit of case coloring.
As far as this rifle goes, the part I like best is of course the wood, and I do like short rifles. I find wood really makes a gun. This one has a barrel that is 4 inches shorter than standard. The Model 1894 / 94 came standard with a 26" barrel, but shorter and longer ones are out there, just hard to find. I forgot to mention that one of the neat things about this gun - and this goes back to it's life in Britain - is that it also came with two partially full, and when I say partially full I mean 4 cartridges, lol, of Kynoch ammo. Over here we know it as the old 30-30 or 30WCF, but over there it was 7.62x51R. Here is a photo of the boxes. A nice piece of history to have with the gun. I would like to know what game was taken with the cartridges missing from the boxes.
Matt
