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May 3, 2016
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Gentlemen
I need your help to indentify a rifle. It is a blued rifle, Lone Star Commemorative in gold on the right side of the barrel. Barrel is half octagon half round with buck horn sights. The serial number is 7 digits 46804xx with no LC. The stocks are hand checkered Black Walnut. All the information I can find on Lone Star Commemorative rifles says they were made in 1970, have gold plated receivers and LC in the serial numbers. Can anyone tell me what I have?
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April 15, 2005
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Hello Robert,
The Lone Star commemorative Model 94s have an “LS” prefix on the serial number, and were numbered LS1 – LS55259, and yes, they were made in 1970. The serial number on your Model 94 is for a standard production Carbine manufactured in the late 1970s. It appears that you have a “Frankenchester”… a Winchester assembled from the parts of an unwilling donor.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
May 3, 2016
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Bert,
Thank you for your reply. I have another question. Do you know who put this rifle together? Seems like it would take someone with access to a lot of parts to take a late 70’s carbine receiver, join it to a 1970 26″ Lone Star octagon/round barrel with dovetailed gold bead front sight over a 3/4 magazine. Take this and put it in a fancy grade American Walnut stock with a crescent butt plate, with a gold medallion ( showing a deer, elk, moose and caribou) embedded on the right side, with Fleur-de-lis hand checkering much akin to that found on the Legendary Frontiersmen. This does not seem like something the average gun lover/ gun smith would do. I can find no reference on line to a rifle like this. I guess my question is;Is this a true Frankenchester, a one of a kind created by some unknown tinkerer or one of a series of rifles produced by a known entity.
With all this in mind do you have a idea of the worth of a rifle like this in 95/98%?
Thanks Again
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