Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, I’ve had an interest in collecting the Model 1894 Spruce Guns and memorabilia over the years. I thought it might be of interest to the collecting community to share what I have gathered so far. Much of it I have framed and hanging in my gun room, but were difficult to photograph since the items are behind glass. For those of you that don’t know about the Spruce Guns, Rick Hill published an excellent article in the Summer 2005 edition of the Winchester Collector magazine pages 15-20 (link below). Bert, I believe you already have both carbines in your survey, but in the case you don’t they are serial numbers 838422 and 849681.
https://winchestercollector.org/magazines/200506/16/
Don
deerhunter said
Bert H. said
Don,
I do not have “818422” but do have 838422.
Bert
Sorry Bert. Listed the wrong serial number in my initial post. SN 838422 is the correct one.
Don
Thanks for the update.
I currently have (290) of the Spruce Guns documented in the survey. The survey grows by 4 – 6 new entries per year.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
Pwog said
Super nice collection of items Don, thanks for sharing with us. Must of been fun to track it all down. Learn something new everyday!Bob
Thanks Bob. It did take quite a few years and a lot of looking to track all this stuff down. But it’s the thrill of the hunt that makes this hobby fun and challenging, right? Cool pieces of history to display that not a lot of “normal people” even know about.
Don
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