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November 7, 2015
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Damned farmers! They can shoot! 
Mike
September 23, 2025
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Well, just as a fun update; the next piece was not what I expected it to be. Honestly was seeking out pretty much everything you guys mentioned, waiting for a good example to come up. Lost a bid on a pre war 71, and bass pro screwed me out of an 1892 rifle.
Third time’s a charm I guess; as I have this deluxe model 1907 headed to me. It’s not a minty piece, but isn’t super gooched either. Cheap for a checkered pre war gun and I’m excited for it to get here.
I didn’t even know these existed to be honest. Just hadn’t scrolled across one. Is there much for data available on these? Cody says configuration information stops at SN 9999, this one is in the 15,000s, so I am assuming just warehouse dates available through them. Would love to know how many of these ended up as deluxe models. Assumedly not a lot.
April 30, 2023
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That looks pretty nice to me….definitely not GOOCHED 
November 7, 2015
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Gooch. I think I’ve seen his work and I agree he hasn’t molested this rifle. Nice score!
Mike
January 27, 1992
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I am still wondering how the word “logical” can be used with Winchester Collecting? 
RDB
August 27, 2014
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Have favorites, but really don’t collect any specific manufacturer or model, I buy what I like. Have purposely looked for a couple of specific Winchesters, but most of my guns are purchases of opportunity. Getting out there to look, having the $’s and being able to recognize (to me at least) a deal have all served me well over the years
Really like your M1907
“If you can’t convince them, confuse them”
President Harry S. Truman
November 7, 2015
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rogertherelic said
I am still wondering how the word “logical” can be used with Winchester Collecting? RDB
Roger-
When I started collecting Winchesters I wanted representatives of the various centerfire Winchesters; 1873, Single Shot, 1886, 1892, 1894 and 1895 to help learn the story of Winchester along with handling and shooting them. I felt the 1866 and Henry rifles were a bit out of my reach and at that time I had not fallen into the .22 rimfire rabbit hole so it seemed like a “logical” goal. I’m showing my old school ways but I learn best from hard copy and hands on; I want to have a Winchester in front of me while I’m reading a book about Winchesters. In my case the next logical acquisition was something that would help me learn more about Winchesters. Sometimes it was a gun, sometimes it was a book, a few times it was loading equipment or components. I don’t know what the OP’s next logical acquisition should be but I hope we’ve given him some ideas and I hope he has a great time chasing that next acquisition.
Mike
March 3, 2020
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I always thought a nice Winchester 42 .410 would be sweet to own.
December 9, 2002
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John D. said
I always thought a nice Winchester 42 .410 would be sweet to own.
John D,
This might have you’re name all over it!
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1139268492
Anthony
March 3, 2020
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Anthony said
John D. said
I always thought a nice Winchester 42 .410 would be sweet to own.
John D,
This might have you’re name all over it!
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1139268492
Anthony
I fear you may have a mistaken me for John D Rockefeller.
November 7, 2015
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Anthony said
John D. said
I always thought a nice Winchester 42 .410 would be sweet to own.
John D,
This might have you’re name all over it!
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1139268492
Anthony
Nice gun, hard to say how much higher it will go.
Mike
November 19, 2006
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rogertherelic said
I am still wondering how the word “logical” can be used with Winchester Collecting? RDB
I’d have to admit Roger describes most of my collecting. I think there is an aspect to collecting that hasn’t been referenced but I’ll wager most everyone relates to. That is, individual rifles can call to us. This is the small but special minority of rifles out there. We often find them when we aren’t looking for them specifically.
I think I’ve acquired most of what I have through this non-method. When you run across something special (to you) it can call out loudly. Whether it is the wood, the finish, the character, the special sights, the particular combination of features, the history, the feel in your hands, a family history connection and on and on.
In my case, my family history with the .32 Special, the .33 WCF and the .45-90 automatically creates an initial connection. I can still remember the story from grandmother. She would be on the farm and would hear random shots throughout the day as she was making lefse (and other wonderful things) for the hunters. She told me that among the shots she heard, she always knew when my grandfather touched the .45-90 off. When I spot a .45-90 on a gunshow table, that story always comes back to me. Not that I wouldn’t purchase an ’86 in another chambering (I have ) but that story is always with me and surely has an influence and pumps some additional chemicals through my brain when I spot one.
I’ve had this one a long while. .45/90 of course, round barrel, half mag, shotgun butt, Lyman No. 21 – everything I could want in a rifle to trek thought the north woods. The fancy wood and an interesting and unusual factory letter added to its call to me.
This ’86 ELW .45-70 had strong appeal to me for many reasons including very high condition, and that it was an ELW, but the 3/4 magazine put it into the very hard to resist category for me. That it lettered as such was thick icing on cake:
It was the Lyman sight on this Savage that called to me. I’d never seen another:
The wood on this Ross .280 Scotch Deerstalking rifle called out to me (painfully – I nearly had to cover my ears):
Personally, I’ve never felt the need for another hobby.
December 9, 2002
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Steve,
Well said and put my friend. I have to ask, without googling it, what is lefse?
Thanks for sharing the images and stories to go along!
Tony
April 15, 2005
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Anthony said
Steve,
Well said and put my friend. I have to ask, without googling it, what is lefse?
Thanks for sharing the images and stories to go along!
Tony
It is “Squarehead” fodder… I was married to one of them for 15-years.
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
November 7, 2015
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I agree, Steve. As I often say, sometimes a gun just follows me home. I wasn’t looking for it, maybe it was looking for me. I don’t have much luck when I go looking for something and I generally have a better time perusing aimlessly.
Mike
December 9, 2002
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Bert H. said
Anthony said
Steve,
Well said and put my friend. I have to ask, without googling it, what is lefse?
Thanks for sharing the images and stories to go along!
Tony
It is “Squarehead” fodder… I was married to one of them for 15-years.
LOL!!!
Now you made me go and look up Norwegian Flat Bread!
Tony
April 15, 2005
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Anthony said
Bert H. said
Anthony said
Steve,
Well said and put my friend. I have to ask, without googling it, what is lefse?
Thanks for sharing the images and stories to go along!
Tony
It is “Squarehead” fodder… I was married to one of them for 15-years.
LOL!!!
Now you made me go and look up Norwegian Flat Bread!
Tony
My grandmother Hartman was half Norwegian and half German… I grew up eating flat bread made in a big cast iron skillet.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
November 19, 2006
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Yes, my grandparents were full Norwegian and there was some Norwegian spoken in the house – particularly when relatives of their generations came by.
I can’t began to estimate how much rolled up lefse I ate sitting in a deer stand. Typically you’d spread the thin piece with butter, sprinkle sugar over it and roll it up. Very easy to eat up in a tree! Another common variation was to spread the butter and then lay a very thin piece of dried beef – and roll it up of course. It’s still popular in my part of the country and you can buy it in grocery stores where it is supplied by small vendors. It sells well during deer season. I’ve never heard of a grocery store making it in their own bakeries.
December 9, 2002
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Bert H. said
Anthony said
Bert H. said
Anthony said
Steve,
Well said and put my friend. I have to ask, without googling it, what is lefse?
Thanks for sharing the images and stories to go along!
Tony
It is “Squarehead” fodder… I was married to one of them for 15-years.
LOL!!!
Now you made me go and look up Norwegian Flat Bread!
Tony
My grandmother Hartman was half Norwegian and half German… I grew up eating flat bread made in a big cast iron skillet.
Bert
Thankfully we have these great memories!
Nona, (Grandma), made the homemade Italian Bread what seamed like everyday, that we’d swear could sink a battle ship, but we never tired of eating it!
Tony
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