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winchester 290 stock style's

jrookjrook Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
edited October 2006 in Ask the Experts
i seen a winchester 290 that had basket weave checkering on the buttstock and forearm and it also had oak leaves on it . can any one give me some history on this style of wood on the 290. i have only seen just that one .i would kill for a set of that wood. hope someone can give me alittle history.thanks
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  • Old FoolOld Fool Member Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That would be the scarce deluxe model made in 1965-73 only. Fineing someone willing to part with a decent stock and forearm is not going to be easy.

    Good Luck.
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kill? I wouldn't even commit misdemeanor assault for any Winchester part from that era. This was during Winchester's "Let 'em eat cake" years, when stampings & castings were substituted for every part possible. The "checkering" on their wood (birch? ash?) was impressed, not real checkering; you aren't missing anything.

    Neal
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  • Bert H.Bert H. Member Posts: 11,281 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by nmyers
    Kill? I wouldn't even commit misdemeanor assault for any Winchester part from that era. This was during Winchester's "Let 'em eat cake" years, when stampings & castings were substituted for every part possible. The "checkering" on their wood (birch? ash?) was impressed, not real checkering; you aren't missing anything.

    Neal


    Well said Neal... and that is a big DITTO on my part.

    WACA Historian & Life Member

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  • jrookjrook Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i have never scene the stocks with the basket weave and oak leaves on them made out of ash or birch. all of them i have seen were on good wood.not ash or birch
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  • Old hickoryOld hickory Member Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    jrook you're right that the "deluxe stock" ha ha was walnut, but the design itself of the firearm was a supreme insult to 100 years of REAL gunmaking. .22 pump auto and lever series of the 60's were truly unreliable and near worthless. sorry...
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