Your dream lever-gun?

[DeanMk]

Might very well be! To a kid, it looked like a 94, but was smaller and trimmer and lighter! Caliber sounds likely, or something along those lines!

In the picture below, #5 is a .32-20. #7 is a .25-35, which is the same size and shape (basically) as a .30-30.

 

[Ura-Ki]

In the picture below, #5 is a .32-20. #7 is a .25-35, which is the same size and shape (basically) as a .30-30.


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Looks like #3 if my memory isn't shot, this was 45+ years ago, kids eyes!

 

[DeanMk]

Looks like #3 if my memory isn't shot, this was 45+ years ago, kids eyes!

That's a .218 Bee. Not sure if any guns were actually chambered for that round, straight from the factory.
Next to it is a .25-20. Maybe that one?

 

[RVTECH]

That's a .218 Bee. Not sure if any guns were actually chambered for that round

The Mod 92 was chambered in the .218 Bee in the latter years of it's production and the model numbers were changed to the Model 53 & 65 sometime in the late 20's to 30's but not many were made and they are very rare.

 

[DeanMk]

The Mod 92 was chambered in the .218 Bee in the latter years of it's production and the model numbers were changed to the Model 53 & 65 sometime in the late 20's to 30's but not many were made and they are very rare.

Appreciate the info, RVTECH.

 

[RVTECH]

Appreciate the info, RVTECH.

Thats what I recall anyway! You might Google it for some more accurate info!

 

[CountryGent]

According to the Standard Catalog of Winchester Firearms, Third Edition, by Joseph M. Cornell, page 72, a small number of 92s were indeed chambered in .218 Bee.

 

[RVTECH]

I am still on the lookout for a nice Mod 64 'Deluxe' !

And kind of like the late mod 92s chambered in .218 Bee and re-model numbered SOME mod 64s were chambered in the 'then' new .219 Zipper which was a .30-30 case necked down to .22 cal.

Like the .218 Bee it was ahead of its time.

 

[Ura-Ki]

That's a .218 Bee. Not sure if any guns were actually chambered for that round, straight from the factory.
Next to it is a .25-20. Maybe that one?

That could very well be! I'm looking through the old family photos to see if there might be one of Grand Mom holding that little rifle, she was quite proud of it, so it's likely she, or some one else might have taken a photo of them!

 

[RVTECH]

Good talk about 'classic' lever actions!

I love it!

 

[Cosmoline]

I forget the company that makes it, but it was called something like "The Alaskan" or something akin to that. It was .357 and stainless and broke apart like the newer 10-22's. That would be an awesome companion to my Python.

Edit: It's by Chiappa, and it is called The Alaskan.

https://www.gunpromoter.co.uk/img/adphotos/import/130/1130_chiappa-firearms-ltd-1892-alaskan-lever-action-44-rifles_photo_0_1597317189_big.jpg?t=20201119130402

 

[kukusya]

I forget the company that makes it, but it was called something like "The Alaskan" or something akin to that. It was .357 and stainless and broke apart like the newer 10-22's. That would be an awesome companion to my Python.

Edit: It's by Chiappa, and it is called The Alaskan.

https://www.gunpromoter.co.uk/img/adphotos/import/130/1130_chiappa-firearms-ltd-1892-alaskan-lever-action-44-rifles_photo_0_1597317189_big.jpg?t=20201119130402

Beautiful gun but peep sight too far out.

 

[Cosmoline]

Beautiful gun but peep sight too far out.

I imagine that's for the break-down feature. If it didn't do that, I think it'd be further back

 

[Pandaz3]

I want a Henry 327, Marlin guide gun 45/70, 357 takedown, any make, In that order.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Sorta off topic, but any one know what rifle Pierce Brosnan is carrying in that movie "The Son" ?

 

[gmerkt]

I've owned many lever rifles over the years, Winchester, Marlin, Browning, even a Henry. Now I'm in the twilight years of my guns and shooting experience, so not taking on anything new. BUT: One I've admired and never owned, the Winchester Model 1886. Original or repro. If orig., I'd want the .33 WCF. If repro., I'd want the .45-70.

The Browning-made repros from Japan, they are beautiful rifles. However, I've learned in roundabout ways they can have their quirks. Like short throats, for example. So I guess I'd lean toward one of the old, original Winchester bangers with the crescent shaped butt. They were made right up to 1935. A run of almost 50 years.

 

[DirectDrive]

I imagine that's for the break-down feature. If it didn't do that, I think it'd be further back

It looks like a Winchester clone, therefore the top of the receiver open and no place to mount a sight.
The #1 reason I like Marlins and Henrys.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Sorta off topic, but any one know what rifle Pierce Brosnan is carrying in that movie "The Son" ?

That looks like a Winchester Model 1907....

Now if you look up "The Son"...on Internet Movie Firearms Database...they also say that it is a Winchester 1907.

But....

They also say that a character carries what appears to be a "Hawken Rifle"...
When the photo of the character shows him with a full stock rifle with a modern cleaning jag on the ram rod tip...Now some Hawken Rifles were full stock...but....
A later shot , shows the side plate for the rifle....its a Lancaster style side plate...clearly this rifle is a modern copy ( sort of ) of a Long Rifle ....and not a Hawken Rifle.

Sorry for the digression....
Andy

 

[RVTECH]

It looks like a Winchester clone, therefore the top of the receiver open and no place to mount a sight.

Well, like a Winchester it might be drilled & tapped on the left side of the receiver for a Williams receiver sight.

 

[RVTECH]

If orig., I'd want the .33 WCF.

Well, if you find an original in .33 WCF I have a box of original ammo to go with it!

I once held an original 1886 in .33 WCF. Beautiful rifle with excellent fit and finish.

Some consider the 1886 to be the 'pinnacle' of Winchester for the time period.