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Asking on behalf of someone not on this forum. He’s looking for info on a 1913 manufacture 1894, stamped WMT and also with a rack number. He’s in Winnipeg, Canada. Any insight on this?
All men have fears. The brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death but always to victory.
Old guns are like old cars and old men. They are meant to be taken out and used from time to time, not locked away or put on display in a museum.
JB,
Is it a Carbine or a Rifle? The first picture leads me to believe that it is a Carbine, whereas the second picture appears to show a Rifle butt stock and crescent butt plate? Of the (1844) Model 1894s I have in my research survey that were manufactured in the 1911 – 1915 timeframe, none of them have the markings you are asking about.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
It’s a carbine.
All men have fears. The brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death but always to victory.
Old guns are like old cars and old men. They are meant to be taken out and used from time to time, not locked away or put on display in a museum.
A Model 94 Carbine with a “rifle” butt stock and butt plate is a relative oddity… can you post a close up picture of the butt stock where it fits up to the upper & lower tangs, and the receiver frame?
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
I would have said too, that it was a carbine simply because the forend is gumwood. The rifle butt stock however, is definitely walnut. This leads me to think that sometime before the gun was stamped with the letters, the carbine butt was replaced with a rifle stock. Since the gun is in Canada, I would have your friend get in touch with Don Klancher in B.C.. He has done a ton of research on NWMP, RNWMP and RCMP guns and equipment. Maybe this carbine has connections to the Mounted Police. The last fax number I have for Don is (250)579-1874 and at the time we were corresponding, his email was [email protected]. maybe others on this forum have more current info for him.
“WMT”… Hummmm. Eureka! The gun is obviously a “Walmart” special model!
Next queston…
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If the gun could only talk. Guns never lie, only the sellers tend to add “true stories”. RDB
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