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April 15, 2005
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This rifle takes the title for the “Most Garishly Embellished” Winchester in existence. I challenge all to find a more hideous Winchester. 
Engraved Winchester Model 1894 for sale (gunsinternational.com)
Bert
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May 2, 2009
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I think the skull and cross bones on the hammer takes the cake.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
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September 19, 2014
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Wasn’t there one some months or years ago that would give this one a run for first place?! Something I’ve tried to forget about, actually! Tim PS. More than a bit of skill to accomplish making the rifle hideous.
November 7, 2015
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1873man said
I think the skull and cross bones on the hammer takes the cake.Bob
I was just thinking this rifle would be pretty easy to hang onto when I saw the skull and crossbones. Mexican eagle was just icing on the cake. I was hoping it was chambered in 32Spl but we can’t have everything.
Mike
May 22, 2024
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Transgender Rifle? Rebarreled to 6.5Cred probably! Custom converted for “The Rifleet”
April 30, 2023
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Says “sale pending”…that you, Bert? 💪🤠
March 3, 2020
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Somebody bought it…… I wonder how much?
June 26, 2013
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Sale pending now for $10K
M64lvr said
Transgender Rifle? Rebarreled to 6.5Cred probably! Custom converted for “The Rifleet”
Looks more like a late-term abortion to me….🤮🤢 It’s “Sale Pending” by the way for $10K. Unbelievable…
November 7, 2015
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deerhunter said
Sale pending now for $10KM64lvr said
Transgender Rifle? Rebarreled to 6.5Cred probably! Custom converted for “The Rifleet”
Looks more like a late-term abortion to me….🤮🤢 It’s “Sale Pending” by the way for $10K. Unbelievable…
That rules me out. I’d need a ski mask, a sawed-off shotgun and a fast car to scrape together $10K today.
Mike
January 20, 2023
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I thought I would never see such a thing but here it is — a lever action Emperor Grade Winslow Plainsmaster.
Now that I’ve seen it, I’ve been trying to unsee it, so far unsuccessfully.
Whoever did this, in a more perfect World would be burned at the stake with his creation used as kindling. And his ashes sent to a distant Galaxy known to be devoid of the precursors for any form of life.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
June 1, 2023
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U
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It ain’t got no alibi; it’s UGLY (and so’s her sister; she’s UGLY too.)
Here you go, Zebulon; guaranteed to wash the image away.
BRP
November 19, 2006
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The amusing thing is the person who made it thought it was a real prize. And presumably the person who purchased it thought the same.
Let me suggest something: I think it likely most people will find this rifle strikingly spectacular. Yes, I said most people – likely the vast majority of people. Our group here is hardly representative of average people. The average person out there knows little about vintage/collectable guns.
The best example I can give is years ago, I took a (non-gun) friend to a gun show. He’d never been to one. We walked past a few tables and he spotted a gaudily chromed Winchester that had been horribly done. He picked that one out as something special: “ooh, that one’s shiny!” Out of hundreds of tables with many beautiful rifles, that one caught his eye. I can hardly imagine what he would say about this rifle.
Let me add, I hope it IS NOT chambered in .32 Special. That would be an insult to the cartridge 
May 22, 2024
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Burned at stake or sent to another planet, is actually a reasonably wise verdict! But hey, here we are, shameful ain’t it!
But wouldn’t surprise me one bit, if knowledge of it got right minds, there be a halftime commercial during super bowl, “Patrick Mahommes in cowgirl suit gunning down another good old respectable heritage, or etc”, in some form or modern fashionable way, who could ever dream, but an evil sick mind!
But yeah, it’d probably be staggering how many would admire it!
March 31, 2009
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Not for me, no way. All that work and they couldn’t fit the butt plate.
December 9, 2002
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It’s actually painful to look at! 
Anthony
April 15, 2005
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Anthony said
It’s actually painful to look at!
Anthony
So why do you Keep doing it ??
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
December 9, 2002
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December 27, 2024
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makes me sad.
Dan
January 20, 2023
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Blue Ridge Parson said
UG
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It ain’t got no alibi; it’s UGLY (and so’s her sister; she’s UGLY too.)
Here you go, Zebulon; guaranteed to wash the image away.
BRP
We may have discovered a new, alternative, definition of “coyote ugly”– you would have to gnaw your arm off after picking that specimen up at a gun show.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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