Hello Mark,

I have looked at more than 13,000 Model 1892 rifles and have not seen similar marks to those.  They are most likely “rack marks” which were applied when an entity had numerous identical rifles and wanted to easily identify one from another.  Can I get the ful lSN of the gun so that  Ican add it into my survey of the 1892’s?

thanks

Michael

Mark,

One would have to assume that the rifle was marked repeatedly so that when disassembled the parts would be put back together into the same rifle.  Thus, the entity who marked it had at lest 4 of them.  Is there a small set screw on the right side of the front sight base?  Can you please post pics of the tang stamp and the barrel address?

Thanks

Michael

Mark,

Actually, both the round and octagon are considered standard configurations in the catalogs.   The round barrel, solid frame, full mag rifle cost $18.00 from it’s introduction until at least 1916.  The octagon barrel version was $1.50 more.  I have not calculated the % of OB vs RB in quite a while but recall it to be about 30% of the sporting rifles were round barrel.

I hope that helps

Michael