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Message Subject Question about an antique rifle
Poster Handle Duncan Kunz
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"Winchester 1895 Short Rifle/Carbine .30-06 s/n 398779 mfg 1920 - 24" round barrel; carbine buttstock, forend and hand guard w/o sight cutout; Lyman 41 receiver sight & high ramp front sight. 99% bright blue finish remain; oil finished walnut stocks remain in excellent like-new condition. Gun was originally the property of the government of Monaco and used by their guards in that country."

How can that be -- a Model 1895 firing a cartridge developed eleven years later?

The only thing I can think of was that this Model 1895 was manufactured in 1920, by which time the Springfield cartridge had been out fourteen years and certainly well proven in World War I.

My guess is that your rifle is a model 1895 (i.e., the rifle designed in 1895), but actually manufactured in a different chambering 25 years later.

So the rifle information you provided me is undoubtedly right; but, if what Brother Malu says is correct, it would not be an "antique" so it'd be subject to Uncle Pig's rulez-'n'-regulationz.

Malu, does that sound right?
 
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