You find the strangest things at gun shows these days.

A friend known far and wide as "Mauser Mike" is the go-to guy if you want clean surplus mauser actions. Has been, for more than twenty years.

This past weekend, I go by Mike's table and he tells me "You like "different stuff,I got a rifle that is right up your alley..."

He pulls out a Winchester AE in .356 Winchester.

Okay, big deal, the rifle has German proofs, and claw mounts and a Euro 44mm objective lens scope. Front mount is sweated on the barrel, and rear is on the receiver. Never seen anything like that done on a 94 before.

Not bad, at $575 and about 90% condition.

YA GOTTA LOVE IDAHO, I picked up some real nice guns at our Filer gun show. A Win. mod 71, .348 WCF and a mod. 94 Win. in 25-35 WCF., both excellent, and a real nice 303 Savage 99 for $275. and sold it an hour later.. Seems the guns were selling at much lower prices than in the past??. Sign of the times??...Missed a nice old S&W 45 long colt 6", for an asking price of $650 and could have probably got it for less, it dawned on me it was a very early gun but was gone by the time I figured that out! I was out of dollars anyway.

Ray, I can't figure out what you would want with a dumb old .25-35 ...

A 94 WINCHESTER, WITH A CLAW MOUNTED SCOPE, IN 356 WCF!!!

Talk about Eclectic... Rich I would like to see a picture of that rifle.

First lets talk about the calibre. The 356 WCF is an excellent calibre for a lever rifle. Bassically it is just a click short of a 358 Winchester and a 35 Whelen...

What is not to like. Perfect for the thick parts of Idaho for deer, elk and bear, not to mention the wolf...

And having a good low light scope in a QD CLAW mount. Again sounds like one fine hunting rifle...

Not bad at all...

Rich show us a picture...

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
A 94 WINCHESTER, WITH A CLAW MOUNTED SCOPE, IN 356 WCF!!!

Talk about Eclectic... Rich I would like to see a picture of that rifle.

First lets talk about the calibre. The 356 WCF is an excellent calibre for a lever rifle. Bassically it is just a click short of a 358 Winchester and a 35 Whelen...

What is not to like. Perfect for the thick parts of Idaho for deer, elk and bear, not to mention the wolf...

And having a good low light scope in a QD CLAW mount. Again sounds like one fine hunting rifle...

Not bad at all...

Rich show us a picture...

A perfect rifle for following dogs on a bear or lion trail. or bear over bait! With a long eye relief scope set up like a scout rifle is perfect.

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A friend of mine and I went to a gun show. He had a cheap 12 gauge over/under that he picked up for $200 and wanted to get rid of.

A guy walked up to him and asked if he wanted to trade. This guy had a .300 Savage in almost new in the box condition and was willing to swap even up.

J.D. hemmed and hawed, finally, reluctantly accepted the trade. I almost peed myself watching his performance reeling the guy in....

I just traded a Ruger All American 30-06 sight unseen for two 1895 Winchester lever action rifles. One is a 30-40 Krag with arsenal markings and a bubbaized stock and the other is a 30-03 Winchester with a sporter stock in french gray. I ended up putting another $700 into the kitty but hey I still think I am ahead.

Sincerely,
Thomas

Thomas
I think you should congratulate yourself for a job well done.

Jim

My best was a pair of '95's - one in 38-72 and the other in .303 Brit. Both for $750. What really hurt was the same table had another 8-10 OLD Winchesters, '95/'94/'92/'86 and I was out of money - heck I had to borrow the $500 of the $750... Children selling their dad's guns...
The Brit barrel was a sewer pipe, but the '72 was actually pretty clean.

Bill the 25-35 is like childbirth, you come in the world naked and hairless and you go out naked and hairless.

I came in this world with a 25-35 and I'll go out with a 25-35..

Best explanation I can come up with, its certainly not in the running for the all around gun of the North American continent, but its come pretty close for me! and I confess to fudgeing now and then!

Gun shows have always been my most treasured form of entertainment, better than Oil Kings and Eskimos season tickets combined.

I think all of us who hang around them habitually all make a good buy once in a while.

I bought a mint Winchester 94 .356 from a great-great grandson of Robert E. Lee, and got maybe the very last New Haven-made M'94 .25-35 rails End carbine, and a nice Wm. Jeffery .280 Kynoch (.280 Ross), and a whole raft of other neat stuff at them over the years.