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August 5, 2019 - 11:24 pm
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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?

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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.

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It’s a carbine.

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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?

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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.

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“WMT”… Hummmm. Eureka! The gun is obviously a “Walmart” special model!
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Of course you are correct.  “Wall Mart Texan”.  Laugh If the gun could only talk.  Guns never lie, only the sellers tend to add “true stories”. RDB

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