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July 20, 2025
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Hi all, I recently inherited this Winchester Model 1895. I was not familiar with the different variations but I’ve researched it online as best I can before I decided I may need some more informed assistance. Can anyone help my identify this?
March 31, 2009
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If it is a Model 1895 without more pictures all I know is that it was manufactured in 1917.
April 15, 2005
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It appears to be a Carbine, and factory chambered for the 30-06 Springfield cartridge.
Bert
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November 19, 2006
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I’d have to hold it in my hands to be sure but it looks like what you have is a very exceptional piece. This is not a commonly found variation of the M1895. Did you inherit it from a collector?
May 23, 2009
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I haven’t seen a picture of the butt plate. But based on the stocks and sights, Is that an 1895 NRA Musket?
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July 20, 2025
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Chuck said
If it is a Model 1895 without more pictures all I know is that it was manufactured in 1917.
Are you certain of the year? Best I could figure through looking was a 1920 manufacturing date. But I’m not certain it’s correct.
steve004 said
I’d have to hold it in my hands to be sure but it looks like what you have is a very exceptional piece. This is not a commonly found variation of the M1895. Did you inherit it from a collector?
It was from a collector. He probably acquired it in the 70s and it’s basically been in a safe since, until recently. From the information I was able to piece together about the variants I could find, it appears to be an NRA musket style. But I just wanted to confirm I suppose.
December 9, 2002
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I found if I clicked on the picture, it came up wanting me to join in on something I didn’t care to. So I deleted it, and clicked it a second time, and was able to view all of the, six pictures, very well.
https://imgur.com/a/winchester-model-1895-Qd4qPxN
What looks to be a very nice example, as I am no expert on these, and won’t pretend to be. The very first picture of the bottom tang, with the serial number, has some worn screws, with what looks like some gouges, made from a screw driver, in the metal on the tang itself, around the screws, that had me wondering. Naturally the screws are the higher wear point that will see the most wear, and that I get, but the screws on the lower side of the tang don’t seem to match the condition of the Rifle. All the other screws in the pictures don’t show that, but again, on the underside of the tang, where a rifle will and can show the most wear from carrying, this gun doesn’t look like it was used and carried a lot! I would love to inspect the bore, or see pics of the bore. Once again, it’s one I would have to handle!
My two Cents!
Thanks for sharing!
Anthony
September 19, 2014
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Maverick wins the $64 prize. It would help to see the butt plate, but the NRA musket in .30 Gov’t of 1906 used the more rearward rear sight as shown for this musket. Tim
March 31, 2009
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I had played with the site trying to open the pictures several times. Obviously I’m impaired. Got it to work this time.
March 31, 2009
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Verbueren said
Chuck said
If it is a Model 1895 without more pictures all I know is that it was manufactured in 1917.
Are you certain of the year? Best I could figure through looking was a 1920 manufacturing date. But I’m not certain it’s correct.
The remaining Winchester records are housed at the Cody Fireams Museum. According to these records your rifle was made in 1917. Go to the top of the page, select Resources then When was your Winchester made. Fill in the blanks.
April 15, 2005
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Per the Polishing Room records, Model 1895 s/n 400873 was manufactured in late March, 1917. The gun may not have been fully assembled and received in the warehouse as a complete (read to sell) gun until 1920, but the factory ledger records with that information are not available.
Bert
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May 23, 2009
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tim tomlinson said
Maverick wins the $64 prize. It would help to see the butt plate, but the NRA musket in .30 Gov’t of 1906 used the more rearward rear sight as shown for this musket. Tim
Just go ahead and send me that $64 check in the mail! I’ll be waiting on it.
I do believe that I recall the butt plate being unique to the NRA Musket as well.
Sincerely,
Maverick
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September 19, 2014
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Maverick, The buttplate is indeed unique. Pretty much a straight steel plate, slightly convex side to side. I volunteer Bert to send you the $64! Tim
April 15, 2005
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tim tomlinson said
Maverick, The buttplate is indeed unique. Pretty much a straight steel plate, slightly convex side to side. I volunteer Bert to send you the $64! Tim
I am dead broke… fuel for my truck is now $5/gal here at home in Washington state. I should have stayed in Cody where it was only $3.69/gal.
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September 19, 2014
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Well, I guess that lets you off the hook. Maverick will just have to trust ‘its in the mail’! Tim
March 15, 2020
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Beloit wisconsin fuel @ $2.89 gal.
March 31, 2009
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86Win said
Beloit wisconsin fuel @ $2.89 gal.
Don’t rub it in. Here in Kalifornia that just covers the state sales tax.
May 23, 2009
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$2.53 per gallon for 87 Octane Fuel and $3.01 per gallon for Diesel here in Shreveport, Louisiana.
But I’m still waiting on that $64 dollar check! I looked in the mailbox yesterday and it didn’t even have any junk mail in it.
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Maverick, Keep watching! Gives you something to hope for……Tim
January 20, 2023
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Bert H. said
tim tomlinson said
Maverick, The buttplate is indeed unique. Pretty much a straight steel plate, slightly convex side to side. I volunteer Bert to send you the $64! Tim
I am dead broke… fuel for my truck is now $5/gal here at home in Washington state. I should have stayed in Cody where it was only $3.69/gal.
Gas prices are not the worst thing you need to worry about as a resident of Washington State. If the influx of the uber-wealthy, ponytailed socialists, and the drug addled homeless into Seattle and the coastal counties continues, a Committee to Cancel the Unrighteous will be formed and I think you tick all their boxes. Most of us do, of course, but we do not live amongst them.
I loved Portland and once considered moving there. If I had not seen with my own eyes what’s happened, for example, to the Pearl, Goose Hollow, and Pioneer Plaza, in the last decade I would not have believed it could happen. It is madness.
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