Where are all the 1895 Winchesters?

I want one in .303 and I usually see one or two at all the shows, so they aren't really that rare, but the prices they're asking are way beyond what I'm willing to part with for one.
 
Rumor has it the Russians still have them in storage, but they know what they're worth and too much for them to be worth importing.
 
Saw and handled one of the 7.62 Russian M1895 muskets in the Nylands Brigade museum in Finland 20+ yrs ago. Quite a few were sold in the US in the late '50s/early '60s.There were obviously enough of them in circulation for Williams Gunsight Company to include it in their booklet on sporterizing a wide cross section of military surplus rifles.

I once owned a M1895 carbine in .303 Brit. A lot of metal in motion when you cycled the action.
 
- Only Russian ones in Canada and the USA are the ones imported by Sam Cummings of InterArms in the 1950's from stocks of Spanish Civil Guns the Soviets shipped over to Spain to help the communist during the Spanish Civil War. A very few examples also came from Finland, relics of the Finnish Civil War.

- A US Importer told me about seeing some in the Ukraine stockpiles, but these were reblued, with electro-penciled numbers on most parts and the bores were completly shot out and useless. Finally the Ukrainians were sure these were made out of Gold considering the asking price.
 
TheCoachZed said:
They made hundreds of thousands of these rifles, supposedly for the White Russians. Where are they all? There should be SOME of those Russian models around?
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Winchester apparently made 300,000 of these (7.62 x 54R)of which 294,000 or so were shipped to the Czar's army in 1915. Most of those are probably in a swamp somewhere. I had a deal going for one but it fell through. Saved a lot of $$$.
 
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I saw a batch of them at Williams Gunsight in Davison, Michigan in the 60s, from the batch that JP described. They were trod upon.
 
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