Got to spend my first bit of quality time with an 1895 Winny .405 this afternoon. What a stroll down nostalgia lane!! The gun had the original factory buckhorn sights. I'm lousy with open sights. My eyes just don't. Still was able to keep all shots within minute-of-deer at 100 yards from a rest. If you've never experienced a flat steel butt-plate.........well....anyhow...... Gotta say that this rifle just climbed several notches on my "to do" list. It's not fast. It's not particularly sexy. But it's just a peach of a gun.

Strut10
I had always read that the 1895 in 404 was "ungainly, ill ballanced, and kicked like a government mule.

I recently shot NFMikes at the range a couple of times, then took it prairie hunting where I shot 46 factory rounds at prairie dogs.
My shoulder was not sore and I really liked the 1895.

Until then I thought the Winchester 1886/Model 71 was the best lever action ever.

I was wrong.

I made a phone call and stopped at my local gunstore before I even got home from Wyoming. I knew they had a 1895 takedown in 405.
Needless to say, the more I shoot, it the more I like it.
It is my favorite of all Lever Action rifles.

I blame it all on NFMike.
But it is a "good thang".

Lever Power. The desease is contagious.

BTW, I let you shoot it. I didn't tell you to buy the damn thing. You better tell your wife that.

Congratulation Mr strut10...

Does your gun have a shotgun butt or the steel crecent buttplate??. It looks classy with the crecent buttplate, but it`s a killer on shoulders

I am very luck in the "wife dept."
I have never had one problem about the "stuff" I buy.
In fact because she hunts, I usually have to buy 2 of everything.... But that is not a bad thing.
Sometimes she lets me borrow "her stuff".
Or I sneak it out when she ain't looking.

Once I "snuck out" her drilling on an Idaho black bear hunt I went on without her.
Everything was fine, untill she saw the pictures, which included a few dead grouse, with her Drilling in the background....

She was very happy when I finally bought my own Drilling.

Mike, I must say I owe you a big thank you, as I really do like the 1895 in 405.

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Originally posted by jens poulsen:
Congratulation Mr strut10...

Does your gun have a shotgun butt or the steel crecent buttplate??. It looks classy with the crecent buttplate, but it`s a killer on shoulders

Sorry 'bout my luck.......but the gun's not my own. It is a good buddy's rifle who was kind enough to let me burn some of his candlesticks.

The buttplate is not crescent........so I'm assuming it's what you're calling a "shotgun butt". At any rate......I can't describe the recoil as being viscious or violent. But it does beat the shoulder noticably. It will also jump right the heck up out of a Rock Rest if you aren't holding it down.

the 1895 is a peach of a rifle, somehow they are just "neat" to play around with. I built one in 375Whelen a couple years back. My brother borrowed it to go elk hunting one year, and the gun never came back...I see it at his house, and the check was good; but...

Rich

I have one in 30gov't06 that I haven't shot. Sounds like that I should. It has been in the safe for many,many years.
Butch