My new toy..(looks like a toy with only 14" barrel)..

Very nice!
Does it have a standard SRC butt? What year manufacture?
I like it.

So you did get it!
Good show.
Do you plan to hunt with it ?

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Originally posted by crshelton:
So you did get it!
Good show.
Do you plan to hunt with it ?

I just might pop a deer with it. Next mission is a SAA 1gen in similar caliber. Skeeter Skelton. ...Here I Come!

If that rifle could talk...

Nice find!

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Originally posted by Snellstrom:
Very nice!
Does it have a standard SRC butt? What year manufacture?
I like it.

It has a stand buttplate of a SRC.



The serie# is 318196 which translate to about the year of 1905.

Congrats, very nice. I just picked up a Colt Bisley in 44-40 that was shipped to Mexico 2 months before the revolution. I always had a soft spot for the 44-40.

You've got yourself a wonderful piece of history, there Jens. Enjoy!

Thanks you all!.

I may have more expensive guns, but this little Winchester is a peach. I have ordered some Magtech ammo for a casual plinking to start with. Looking foreward to see what kind of accuracy it will do at 50meters(55yards).

Careful, you might find yourself collecting Winchester levers. The Browning designed levers are something special that can be hard to explain in words, you just need to hold them and work the action to know what I mean.

I have my granddads gun that he carried in the Texas Ranger Service and shot and killed a notorious bank robber between Marfa, Texas and Presidio Texas..It is a 26 inch oct. rifle in 38-40. the bore is rough but it shoots two inch groups at 50 yards with iron sights..The kicker is the serial # is 178 first year of production. His 30-30 is 2524 first year of production an is a trapper model and its got a nasty barrel and shoots an inch every time at 100 yards with irons...I will be traveling to Texas one of these days and am going to put on loan his guns to the Texas Ranger Museum.

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Originally posted by Kebco:
Careful, you might find yourself collecting Winchester levers. The Browning designed levers are something special that can be hard to explain in words, you just need to hold them and work the action to know what I mean.

I have startede to grow fund of Winchesters again. I had 36 vintage levers at one time...1 1866 rifle...1 1873 rifle and the rest was Brownings patent rifles. Most of them found overhere. I may get myself a 1892 non collectable rifle for back yard plinking. Its been many years ago since I've had bast with leveraction guns. Its time to catch up...
One of my 1886 Winchesters was a .50/110 Delivery to P.Orr in Madras. I still miss that one in particular. I might have a custom gun smith to make me one on a modern Steel framed 1886 action.

Funny but I am also going through the same process. I sold most of my original lever collection in the early 80's to help fund a new house. Been adding some back in the last 10 years.

1892s are just neat little rifles! Brilliantly designed and near perfect ergonomics.

I bought one on an online auction a couple of years ago- an octagon 20 inch in .25-20, made in 1911. The guy selling it told me that "it was a real shooter", and when it arrived I found out he was right- it shot five foot groups at 50 yards!

Having already spent too much money on it, I decided to try a re-sleeve job on it. Things were going well until I cut the new chamber. I was focused on doing a prefect job.... and as I was finishing, I noticed I had a perfectly head spaced chamber at the muzzle end. Not good. Ended up cutting a chamber in the proper end and cutting 1 1/4" off the muzzle, leaving 18 3/4".

The darned thing shortly became my favorite "walking around" rifle- tack driving accurate out to 150 yards or so, and just a pleasure to shoot. Since any collector value it may have once had was long gone, I added a Lyman receiver sight and a sling. When I die, I'm gonna be buried with that rifle! It's that nice to shoot.

Porosonik.

That's a great rifle, but the thing that does it for me is the wear mark the saddle ring leaves. You can't duplicate that artificially anywhere!

+1 on the saddle ring wear mark. My 1892 has one also:


I had to remove the saddle ring to install the receiver sight.

Hunting deer and Antelope with granddads 38-40 and my uncles 44-40 taught me some damn good tracking skills!

I too find more lever guns in my gun cabinet every time I open the door..A complete circle of my life, I was born naked and barefooted and with a Win Saddle Ring trapper carbine near my crib and I'll probably die with the same gun near my bed. In between Ive owned about every gun that was made at one time or another.

This is a matching pair of 38WCF made in 1892 with 4 digit serial numbers, for the State prisons service.

BAW,
Those nice old 92 would fetch a pretty penny at a US auction I betcha..