Mark Douglas said

steve004 said
Mark -
Great buck and great rifle.  I really enjoyed the photo of both the buck and the rifle.  And I REALLY enjoyed seeing the Cody letter!  A deluxe special order '95 sure catches my attention.
  

Thanks a bunch Steve.  A video of the hunt is scheduled to post on our YouTube channel tomorrow morning.  Keep an eye out for it if you'd like to see that beautiful 1895 in action.  Mark
  

I'm looking forward to it!

Thanks,

Michael

Rough.  At $4650, priced at two to three times what it’s worth.

Bert H. said

mrcvs said
Bert can further elaborate, but I believe, IIRC, fluted combs date to about 1913 to 1915 and so the fluted comb buttstock on this carbine may have been affixed to this mid 1920s receiver at a later date.
  

Based on current survey results, the Fluted comb butt stocks first appeared in 1911 on the Model 1894, and they continued to be used through 1936.  In all cases, the fluted comb stock was fitted with a shotgun style butt plate.  The early production specimens are found with a smooth steel, checkered steel, or a hard rubber plate, all of which will have the widow's peak.  At some time in 1914, the widow's peak was eliminated from the hard rubber and smooth steel butt plates, but continued to be found on the checkered steel butt plates. 
It was in the post-WW I years that the serrated steel butt plate began appearing, and through the 1920s and up to the mid 1930s it was the most common shotgun stye butt plate found on the Model 94 (it became the standard butt plate on all Model 94 Carbines in mid-year 1937).
Bert
  

Thank you for this, I wasn’t sure if the latest findings.  I didn’t recall them being this late.  And, of course, this refers to the Model 1894, I didn’t know how similar this data was to Model 1892 production, or not.

steve004 said
Mark -
Great buck and great rifle.  I really enjoyed the photo of both the buck and the rifle.  And I REALLY enjoyed seeing the Cody letter!  A deluxe special order '95 sure catches my attention.
  

Thanks a bunch Steve.  A video of the hunt is scheduled to post on our YouTube channel tomorrow morning.  Keep an eye out for it if you'd like to see that beautiful 1895 in action.  Mark

The gun: Winchester Model 94 AE in .45 Colt. As far as I can tell it has never been fired.

The symptom: the carrier sits up and blocks the loading gate. You cannot get a round in the side at all. Push the carrier down by hand and a round goes right in.

The history: the previous owner never figured out why it would not load. It went to two gunsmiths and came back both times with no fix. I finally tore it down myself.

The cause: the carrier spring was missing. Not broken, not worn, just not in the gun. Either it was never installed or it was lost in an earlier teardown and nobody caught it.

The part: Winchester factory original, number U346420060, listed for standard calibers. The only chambering that gets a different spring is .357 Mag, part U346421180. Under ten dollars from Midwest Gun Works.

Why it is hard to find: the factory disassembly procedure stops before the carrier spring and says further disassembly is not recommended. 

steve004 said

Bert H. said

steve004 said
 
My question, did Winchester ever manufacture cartridges in .577?
  

Good question, and my guess would be Yes, but in very small quantities.  In total, Winchester manufactured at least (11) Single Shot (high-wall) rifles for the 577 Eley cartridge.  Most of them went to India.  In all the years that I have been scouring and haunting gun shows, I have only had my hands on (1) rifle in that caliber.  It had a massive 30-inch No. 5 barrel.  I really wanted to buy that rifle, but the seller was asking way too much for it ($40K). After seeing it, I hunted down the single 577 cartridge I have in my collection today.
Bert
  

That sounds like one heck of a .577 rifle.  I would surely love to have it.  If I recall, the one I could have had was around $1500 but it had been reblued (not, "restored").  Still, in hindsight, I should have gone for it.  What would be amazing to see would be a full box of .577 cartridges manufactured by Winchester.  Such a thing may have never existed, but if it did, the odds that such a thing is still around is probably less likely than winning he Powerball.
  

If such a box exists, my bet is it would be the flat 10-round type box versus the standard 20-round vertical box.  If I ever find a box, I will own it!

Bert

Bert H. said

steve004 said
 
My question, did Winchester ever manufacture cartridges in .577?
  

Good question, and my guess would be Yes, but in very small quantities.  In total, Winchester manufactured at least (11) Single Shot (high-wall) rifles for the 577 Eley cartridge.  Most of them went to India.  In all the years that I have been scouring and haunting gun shows, I have only had my hands on (1) rifle in that caliber.  It had a massive 30-inch No. 5 barrel.  I really wanted to buy that rifle, but the seller was asking way too much for it ($40K). After seeing it, I hunted down the single 577 cartridge I have in my collection today.
Bert
  

That sounds like one heck of a .577 rifle.  I would surely love to have it.  If I recall, the one I could have had was around $1500 but it had been reblued (not, "restored").  Still, in hindsight, I should have gone for it.  What would be amazing to see would be a full box of .577 cartridges manufactured by Winchester.  Such a thing may have never existed, but if it did, the odds that such a thing is still around is probably less likely than winning he Powerball.

steve004 said
 
My question, did Winchester ever manufacture cartridges in .577?

Good question, and my guess would be Yes, but in very small quantities.  In total, Winchester manufactured at least (11) Single Shot (high-wall) rifles for the 577 Eley cartridge.  Most of them went to India.  In all the years that I have been scouring and haunting gun shows, I have only had my hands on (1) rifle in that caliber.  It had a massive 30-inch No. 5 barrel.  I really wanted to buy that rifle, but the seller was asking way too much for it ($40K). After seeing it, I hunted down the single 577 cartridge I have in my collection today.

Bert

mrcvs said
Bert can further elaborate, but I believe, IIRC, fluted combs date to about 1913 to 1915 and so the fluted comb buttstock on this carbine may have been affixed to this mid 1920s receiver at a later date.
  

Based on current survey results, the Fluted comb butt stocks first appeared in 1911 on the Model 1894, and they continued to be used through 1936.  In all cases, the fluted comb stock was fitted with a shotgun style butt plate.  The early production specimens are found with a smooth steel, checkered steel, or a hard rubber plate, all of which will have the widow's peak.  At some time in 1914, the widow's peak was eliminated from the hard rubber and smooth steel butt plates, but continued to be found on the checkered steel butt plates. 

It was in the post-WW I years that the serrated steel butt plate began appearing, and through the 1920s and up to the mid 1930s it was the most common shotgun stye butt plate found on the Model 94 (it became the standard butt plate on all Model 94 Carbines in mid-year 1937).

Bert