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Pic added...Old picture - is it a Winchester?
utbrowningman
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Came home from visiting my parents with some of my grandparent's slides a even glass negative, which is the picture below. Odds are he's holding a Winchester. I have similar which came down through the family in the picture so it could be same one. I'll never know.
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@forgemonkey does amazing work enhancing photos. Wonder if this one could be worked over?
Not much you can do in this case ,,,,,,, sorry.
Great photo. Looks like a Winchester. See the sling? Does yours have a sling?
Great find
Regardless
Still a great keepsake of your grandfather
And your story even a long shot has more merret than a lot of stories to be the rifle
It does. I'll have to post a picture tomorrow.
I vote same gun. You can see the takedown lever in the old picture and sling location is same
I did not know that was a takedown lever, thank you. My thought was some type of lever to unstick a cartridge or spring in the magazine tube. I'll have to carefully take down as I would assume it has not been in 40+ years. I have not shot but have ran cleaning patches through.
That's a treasure , for sure. The gun and the picture.
Based on the serial number of 68XXX, appears to be a 1896 manufacture of a Model 1894 Sporting. I can rotate the takedown and remove the tube but cannot rotate the barrel. Going to think on this for awhile.
Yes!
I thought you were looking at the axe?
It's been a while since I took one of those down, but most likely, it's just crud in the alignment grooves. Try this:
https://winchestercollector.org/forum/winchester-rifles/need-help-with-a-model-1894-takedown-that-wont-come-apart/