1895 Carbine butt plates|Winchester Rifles|Forum|Winchester Collector

I supposed there might be a ’95 carbine with a crescent butt out there – but I’ve never seen one.  The ’95 carbine most commonly came with the Winchester carbine butt.  Here’s one that Leroy Merz has and he shows the buttplate from a couple angles.

https://www.merzantiques.com/product/w3131-winchester-1895-src-in-30-40-krag-m/

Also fairly common is a shotgun butt.  Most commonly steel.  Here is a ’95 carbine I have that has the steel shotgun butt:

I assume this carbine was manufactured outside the letterable range?

Mark Mahoney said
I thought crescent at first but can’t find any information indicating how it left the factory.  the factory Cody just says it left as a carbine? To compound this story I have two of these rifles that where cut to install the recoil pads, both have rounded stocks and the same graven piece installed. My friend had both and gave me one as I promised to try and return them to their original confirmation. So now I missing the upper hand guard on both and have the butt plate delema. there is a 94 butt plate on Ebay that looks like the correct one but it says it is a 94. Maybe they were the same? Yikes  serial # 54868 and # 96167

Thanks for your help

Mark

  

If the serial number is found within the factory ledgers, and it stays it left the factory as a carbine (with no notation of any different buttplate), I would be confident it left with a standard carbine butt.  I believe someone swapped stocks on it at a later date.  A strong possibility is perhaps the carbine stock on it had been quite nice, and someone cannibalized it to put it on a different gun.  

I see more 95 carbines with the stocks cut or changed. Those buttplates are going to be hard to find