Question about an old Winchester

[G.O. West]

This Winchester 1894 followed me home today. Serial # 466XXX. It's a bit beat up but still quite shootable. Manufactured in 1907. I was intrigued by the short magazine. Is this style a rarity? The magazine cap looks like it has a flip out lever built into it. What is that for and how does it work?

 

[dahermit]

I had a Winchester 1892 in 25-20 that had that "flip-out lever", albeit mine had a full-length magazine. Try flipping the lever out, unscrew the magazine tube and try to turn the front of the receiver to 90 degrees. It may be a take-down model as mine was.

 

[G.O. West]

dahermit

It's not a takedown. It has no extension on the receiver. Here are some close-up photos of the magazine cap. The little piece that looks like a lever does not seem to want to move although I have not really tried to force it too hard.

 

[Bill DeShivs]

It's not going to move with the cap beat up that badly.

 

[Hawg]

That notch in the top of the tube looks like it was a full length carbine mag at one time. The notch would be where the screw went through the front barrel band.

 

[eastbank]

not a collector as the work is not factory, why it was done is any one,s guess.

 

[pwc]

Flip out, turn 90-180°, poll out spring and follower?

 

[Pathfinder45]

Aside from the magazine end-cap and the butt-plate , your rifle looks very similar to a solid- frame model 55. I like it.

 

[FrankenMauser]

Bubba repairs using some parts from a take-down.
Not rare. Not special. Not valuable.
But should be fun to shoot.

 

[Scorch]

Carbine barrel, rifle rear sight, half of the magazine missing. Hmmmmm. Looks like it was a ranch rifle that got repaired by backwoods gunsmiths. When I was in NV we used to get a lot of ranch rifles in that had somewhat odd features, like nails for band screws, home made sights, home carved wood, etc.