W4744 WINCHESTER MODEL 94/95 HYBRID SRC MANUFACTURED WITH A MODEL 95 BARREL CHAMBERED IN 30 WCF [M]

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W4744 WINCHESTER MODEL 94/95 HYBRID SRC MANUFACTURED WITH A MODEL 95 BARREL CHAMBERED IN 30 WCF; 20 inch carbine configuration chambered in 30 WCF caliber with a bright shiny excellent bore. Barrel and 6 shot full length magazine tube retain most all original blue with some scratches on the left side of the mag tube. Sights include a pinned blade front and a folding ladder rear. Receiver has most all blue remaining with some edge wear scratches with a saddle ring on the left side. Nitre blue on the loading gate. Hammer and lever are blued. Straight grain walnut stock set are in good condition with some handling mars. Steel carbine style buttplate. The 20 inch round barrel with a pinned blade front sight is pinned into a contoured ramp rather than a square stud. The magazine retainer is the rifle style that dovetails into the bottom of the barrel rather than the typical carbine style band that wraps around the top of the barrel. The bore has a 1 in 10 inch rate of twist rather than the standard 1 in 12 associated with 30 WCF. These are clues that indicate this is one of the rare guns Winchester made with surplus Model 95 barrels left over after Model 95 production had ended. They were cut off at the breech and re-chambered for 30 WCF and fit onto carbines. Listed by serial number, this is one of the rare “Model 94/95 Hybrid Carbines” profiled in THE WINCHESTER COLLECTOR magazine Summer 2012. At  the time of the article, it states there had been approximately 50 of these hybrid carbines discovered. This hard to find Winchester was made in 1928 and is sure to fill a hole in your 1894 collection!

MODERN   $ 3,275.