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When did hammers & levers go from being case coloured to blued on the Winchester Model 1895? On the Model1886s, 1892’s, 1894s this was some time during WWI.
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mrcvs said
When did hammers & levers go from being case coloured to blued on the Winchester Model 1895? On the Model1886s, 1892’s, 1894s this was some time during WWI.
Actually, it was a few years before WW I. For the Model 1894, the case colored hammers, levers, and crescent butt plates began being phased out in 1914, and they were all but non-existent by the year 1916.
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Bert H. said
mrcvs said
When did hammers & levers go from being case coloured to blued on the Winchester Model 1895? On the Model1886s, 1892’s, 1894s this was some time during WWI.
Actually, it was a few years before WW I. For the Model 1894, the case colored hammers, levers, and crescent butt plates began being phased out in 1914, and they were all but non-existent by the year 1916.
Bert
Yes, that seems about right based on my observations and previous posts to this forum I couldn’t locate. What about the Model 1895?
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If anyone is thinking an answer to this question is going to be neat and all inclusive, they will be disappointed!! I perused the chapter on receivers in the 1895 book starting on page 94. Answers appear in or under the various pictures. Distilled they look like this. Two rifles in the 20,000 sn range had blued triggers but case hardened lever links. I saw no hardened and colored triggers. I did not see any lever being anything other than blued. Links were case hardened up to the 60,000 to 70,000 sn ranges. Hammers were case hardened up to the 70,000 to 80,000 sn ranges. Now, I did not try to cross reference the serial number ranges to dates, but expect anyone sufficiently curious may do so with the “when was your Winchester made” look up at the beginning of our forum. Now, were any 1895’s factory color case hardened for the receiver? I do not know but have not seen one yet except a couple admittedly done after market just for the fun of it. Tim
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