For those of you who aren't obsessed enough with lever guns to browse the Lever #### Forum, thought I would share this here as well. Kind of a neat find to share with those who like old Winchesters or old lever guns in general.
This is a rifle I recently picked up. Antique in the US, so drove down and brought it back across to its new home in the North. It is a Winchester Model 1894 in the old standby 30WCF. This gun is antique in the US as it had its serial number applied on September 17, 1897. This special order rifle was shipped out to the proud owner on October 1, 1897. This rifle was special ordered with a 2/3 magazine, plain pistol grip stock with steel shotgun buttplate, a Lyman No. 4 Hunting front sight, Lyman tang sight, and a Marbles fold down No. 95. Pretty scarce gun on its own with those features. Now, for the best part. What makes this gun super special, is that it is 1 of only 6 documented 23 inch short rifles noted in the Cody Museum records for the Model 1894. Yes, a 23 inch barrel! Standard length for this model was 26 inches. Once in a while you see a 24", a 22 or 20". Not too often you will see this, odd barrels lengths (i.e 25, 23, 21, etc) are scarce. And, it gets better. This is noted - by serial number - in the published 1995 Armax study of the 1894 records at Cody, as the very first 23 inch 1894 manufactured by Winchester. Pretty cool. From my understanding, the gun was originally carried and hunted with in Upper New York State, that was where she earned her dues. Too bad she couldn't talk. Now just gotta find out how she shoots with that odd length 23" barrel!
Here are a couple photos of the rifle:
Matt
This is a rifle I recently picked up. Antique in the US, so drove down and brought it back across to its new home in the North. It is a Winchester Model 1894 in the old standby 30WCF. This gun is antique in the US as it had its serial number applied on September 17, 1897. This special order rifle was shipped out to the proud owner on October 1, 1897. This rifle was special ordered with a 2/3 magazine, plain pistol grip stock with steel shotgun buttplate, a Lyman No. 4 Hunting front sight, Lyman tang sight, and a Marbles fold down No. 95. Pretty scarce gun on its own with those features. Now, for the best part. What makes this gun super special, is that it is 1 of only 6 documented 23 inch short rifles noted in the Cody Museum records for the Model 1894. Yes, a 23 inch barrel! Standard length for this model was 26 inches. Once in a while you see a 24", a 22 or 20". Not too often you will see this, odd barrels lengths (i.e 25, 23, 21, etc) are scarce. And, it gets better. This is noted - by serial number - in the published 1995 Armax study of the 1894 records at Cody, as the very first 23 inch 1894 manufactured by Winchester. Pretty cool. From my understanding, the gun was originally carried and hunted with in Upper New York State, that was where she earned her dues. Too bad she couldn't talk. Now just gotta find out how she shoots with that odd length 23" barrel!
Here are a couple photos of the rifle:
Matt
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