Winchester 1895 SLC .303 grizzly gun

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Just bought this from my son, who got it from this original owner:

"It has seen many, many miles in a leather saddle scabbard and bluing is worn, of course...I owned and used it for about 40 years and she saved my butt on a couple occasions when I was guiding grizzly hunters...It was a gift from the guide outfitter I was working under at the time. He loaned me the rifle to back him up on a grizzly that an American hunter wounded.....I was able to get 5 fast shots in the bear before it went down at his feet. His rifle was tangled in the damn alder. Anyways he gave me the gun in appreciation...A few years later another wounded grizzly got him and he didn't make it home that time....The family is still in the guiding business but in the Yukon now."
 
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Nice carbine. I had one just like it in .30 U.S.
Hopefully you will get to try it out on game.
 
Really nice picture and great write-up, Thanks for sharing with us.
I had two of those saddle ring carbines when I collected Winchesters back in the 1960s and 70s.
Mine were in 303 British and 30-40 Krag always wanted to find one in 405 Winchester but never did.
They are a very smooth functioning rifle and very accurate when in good condition..
 
Galt said:
Very nice...

passed on one a while ago..wish I had grabbed it..that and in 7.62x54 would be nice.
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What ever happened to those 7.62x54's? I wonder if one of the sponsors who deal in milsurps could get their hands on a couple of train-loads of them. :)
 
1899 said:
What ever happened to those 7.62x54's? I wonder if one of the sponsors who deal in milsurps could get their hands on a couple of train-loads of them. :)
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I am not sure how many made it to Russia or how many hit the civilian market. In good shape with Russian markings I am sure they would be pricey.
 
Galt said:
I am not sure how many made it to Russia or how many hit the civilian market. In good shape with Russian markings I am sure they would be pricey.
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Ian at forgotten weapons did a vid on the Russian ones. I wanna say he says 300 000 were made. I don't think he was at an auction house for that one, so your guess is as good as mine as to the value...
 
I don't think the 1895 carbine could be had in anything but .30 bore(.303,30/03,30/06 and .30/40 Krag). I have never heard of one in the bigbore calibres(.35 Win. or .405 Win.). The 7.62x54 was the most common chambering in the 1895. Of a production of over 428,000 1895's 293,000 were military rifles in 7.62x54R. Many never made it to Russia and were sold as surplus in the U.S. I have read accounts of 1895 rifles being captured in Spain during the Spanish Civil War after being used by the Soviet supported Republicans. A few even made it to China in the 1940's.
Nice carbine though. They are hard to find with the handguard still there.
 
Mike Webb said:
I don't think the 1895 carbine could be had in anything but .30 bore(.303,30/03,30/06 and .30/40 Krag). I have never heard of one in the bigbore calibres(.35 Win. or .405 Win.). The 7.62x54 was the most common chambering in the 1895. Of a production of over 428,000 1895's 293,000 were military rifles in 7.62x54R. Many never made it to Russia and were sold as surplus in the U.S. I have read accounts of 1895 rifles being captured in Spain during the Spanish Civil War after being used by the Soviet supported Republicans. A few even made it to China in the 1940's.
Nice carbine though. They are hard to find with the handguard still there.
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Teddy Roosevelt used a 1895 in 405 Win extensively during his trips to Africa.

Also, Ian at forgotten weapons says most if not all of the ones the Russians ordered were delivered before the communist revolution took place.

Regardless, they are a cool gun, I'd love a lever action in 7.62x54r!
 
Suther said:
Teddy Roosevelt used a 1895 in 405 Win extensively during his trips to Africa.
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Roosevelt and his son had three 1895's in .405 and one in .30-40 on their nine month expedition in East Africa.

What Mike is saying if you read it again is that he doesn't believe the 1895 carbine came out in anything but .30 bore(.303,30/03,30/06 and .30/40 Krag). I am pretty sure he is correct but not 100%. Been a while since I had much interest in 1895's.

Mike Webb said:
They are hard to find with the handguard still there.
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That's for sure!
 
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Rob said:
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Just bought this from my son, who got it from this original owner:

"It has seen many, many miles in a leather saddle scabbard and bluing is worn, of course...I owned and used it for about 40 years and she saved my butt on a couple occasions when I was guiding grizzly hunters...It was a gift from the guide outfitter I was working under at the time. He loaned me the rifle to back him up on a grizzly that an American hunter wounded.....I was able to get 5 fast shots in the bear before it went down at his feet. His rifle was tangled in the damn alder. Anyways he gave me the gun in appreciation...A few years later another wounded grizzly got him and he didn't make it home that time....The family is still in the guiding business but in the Yukon now."
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Very cool rifle Rob!
 
The Winchester 95 bridged the divide between traditional lever actions and modern rifles, as did the Savage 99, only the 95 was chambered for men's cartridges. It seems to me I've seen a couple in .270, although my tastes run to the .30/06. To have a 95 chambered for 7.62X54R would make an interesting heirloom, although none are as Canadian as the .303; this must have been the rifle that Stan Rogers referred to in his song Night Guard.
 
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