Just something I found browsing the internet. What a gorgeous rifle!



Engraved and Gold Inlaid Winchester Model 1895 Lever Action Sporting Rifle, with Carved and Checkered Select Walnut Stocks
Serial no. 66256, .30 U.S. Model 1903 caliber, 24-inch round barrel with standard markings, flush gold-inlaid barrel band at breech, accompanied by scroll engraving; open sporting rear sight with ivory bead front sight on steel blade dovetailed on ramp. Engraved frame with gold-inlaid borders front and rear; bear panel scenes on left side of frame; muskox panel scene on right side of frame; engraved cocking lever and hammer. Blued, with case-hardened hammer. Select oil-finished deluxe walnut stocks checkered and carved in style D, with checkered hard rubber buttplate.

Condition: Excellent as reconfigured. 97% blue and 95% case-hardening, minor fading and patina; stocks with light nicks and storage marks. Rear sight repositioned, original holes plugged and barrel partially refinished. Rifle believed to have been used by the Winchester factory as a display piece. John T. Amber.

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Very nice!

But:

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Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

I don't suppose they'd come down to about $400, would they?

I am a huge fan of the M1895 and I just thought this was a really neat example of the gun. I think the fact the date of manufacture is engraved on the receiver is very interesting too.

I think everything about this particular gun is fascinating actually.

Made in the U.S. of A.

I love the 95s too.

At a gun show, I saw a well engraved Model 1895 about fifteen, sixteen years ago in .35 Winchester for the princely sum of $3500 US. Too bad that I only had about $35.00 and a maxed-out credit card in my wallet!

No idea what that rifle would sell for now!

Maybe it is the photo but the metal work looks quite a bit better than the woodwork.

As a big fan of the 1895 I can appreciate that rifle. Still, I prefer a plainer grade for my personal rifle.

I think I could find some room for that in my safe. I am a zero or two short at them moment though.
I will be picking up a 95 sadle ring carbine 30/40 krag this weekend, I hope .
Its being shipped clear across the country,
So It might take a little longer.
I,ll post pics...tj3006

I prefer Marlin 1895s.

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I prefer Marlin 1895s.

<gasp>


Blasphemer!





(Psst! I do like the Marlin '95 also.)

I have a marlin 95 and like it too.
But thats apples to oranges , a better compaison would be the marlin to the 1886.
Its still in some way's a close call.
The pure simplicity of the marlin is cool as hell, but the John browning 86 is is so smooth ,
and such a cool design.
Of corse since a guy could buy about 6 marlins for the price of an origional 86 makes it a prety easy choice for most of us.
...tj3006

Here's the 100 year anniversary edition Winchester '95, in 30-06 caliber:

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Here's the 100 year anniversary edition Winchester '95, in 30-06 caliber:

It would be too much of a potential safe queen to suit me, but


OH YEAH!!!

This thread is not about Marlin vs Winchester, it is about the elegant M-1895 Winchester. The merits of Marlin vs Winchester can be argued elsewhere!

The M-1895 has appealed to me since I watched the movie In The Blood, which talks about hunting and the 1909 Teddy Roosevelt safari, where he took "Big Medicine", the legendary Model 1895 .405 Winchester.

After watching that I then acquired African Game Trails, a fascinating book.

When Winchester decided to re-release the M-1895 through Miroku I wanted one badly, but it took me quite a while to get one and a helluva pile of red tape! I spotted a .405Win in a Cabela's store in Minnesota and bought it, then waited months for a Canadian gunbroker, with a USA firearms license and export/import license, to get the rifle into Canada. Naturally I had to jump through all the hoops that our Left-Wing Commie Gov't threw at me...

But hey, in the end I got my M-1895. A simple working version of the rifle and one I hope to dump a black bear with some day. Oh yeah, it does not stay in the gun safe! What the hell is the point?

If I had that 100th Anniversary rifle it would also go hunting, "cuz that's what them guns is made fer..."

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The M-1895 has appealed to me since I watched the movie In The Blood, which talks about hunting and the 1909 Teddy Roosevelt safari, where he took "Big Medicine", the legendary Model 1895 .405 Winchester.

Oh, yes! We can't overlook the grandaddy of the big bore lever action cartridges! I have shot one of these, expecting brutal recoil, but was surprised at how mild it was. A fair amount of "push", but not much of a "snap." (Those terms are how I describe recoil. Hope they make sense. ) So IMO you did good!


And if you watch the 1950 version of "King Solomon's Mines" with Stewart Granger, you'll somewhat briefly see an abandoned Model 95 that Granger picks up.

Here is mine. A USRAC 1895 in .405 Winchester. It is the Texas Edition with a case hardend finish on the reciever.

@ Jim Z., great rifle! In the first years of the 21th century, I ordered one of the first .405WCF rifles, made by Miroku, at the Winchester company. Winchester told me, I will get the first rifle, that will send to europe. But after the IWA, the rifle don´t came and after a few month, I get the information, No any rifle will export to europe. One year later, I found a pre WW2 belgium made double rifle, made for the .405 WCF. One of my beauty´s in the safe. And the importend, the rifle shoots great.


Martin

I forget, befor one week, I saw an M95 carbine made in 1912 at an web-auction. It was a .35WCF and the price started at 400.-€. I was thinking and thinking, should I bid? But after 6 hours the auction ends at over 1200.-€. To much for me.


Martin

Demonical,
For what its worth and it may not make any difference to any of us but that gun is not an original factory rifle, in which case the price is ridiculas..Its a nice enough rifle but the engraving and stock work is second rate for sure, very rough work..

Personally I like my new 30/40 saddle ring carbine better. It doesn't come close to some of the turn of the century factory jobs I've seen. I had one of the first 405's Kreiger built before Winchester reissued them and liked it very much but still my carbine is nicer to me. I just like the carbines best of ALL 95's.