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February 18, 2024
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Any chance does this Win 71 has a factory order correct but stock? My first thought is replacement but thought if I ask I might learn something.
Has all the 71 special features except the but stock does not have the Winchester grip cap. Looks like a std with checkering and special forend cap.
https://durysguns.com/product/winchester-1871-deluxe-348win/
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April 15, 2005
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Paul,
I have my suspicions of that rifle. It would really help to see the inletting on the butt stock for the QD sling swivel base.
Bert
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August 14, 2021
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Does look like the checkering was added post factory.
April 6, 2022
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Steven Gabrielli said
Does look like the checkering was added post factory.
Some of the lines look a bit curved where they shouldn’t be and the points on the rear of the forearm are overrun. Could just be the picture though.
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January 20, 2023
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The rear of the pistol grip should extend proud of the line of the stock, without the grip cap in place. Even if the grip cap is missing, there should be a pair of prong marks in the face of the Walnut pistol grip, to prove there was a factory washer in place to prevent the cap from rotating ñon its screw. EDIT: I don’t think a washer was employed when the earlier hard rubber cap was in use. It was necessary when the steel cap became standard. In any event, there should also be a screw hole.
It is not unknown for Standard grade Model 71 to have a set of Super Grade swivels and the Special-style forearm cap and inletted rear base. I owned one for several years and i believe it was a catalogued option for the Standard grade rifle.
I agree with Steve the Forearm checkering is “off.”
In my opinion, this is a Standard grade Model 71, possibly with factory installed Super Grade swivels and bases, the Walnut of which has been refinished and checkered.
The tip-off is the pistol grip. You can’t add missing wood.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
