Pre 64 Winchesters

[czhen]

forward observer
Thank you for posting such a beautiful line up.

 

[Rembrandt]

A few Model 52's.....

 

[Catpop]

Here’s an 1873 I got as a basket case and made a buttstock for back in the 1980s. Doesn’t look like much, but check out that group from an 1887 rifle! And that’s shooting handloaded BOOLITS!

 

[Gordon]

Reach out and touch you "over there" style. Turned 100 years old last December. Got lucky that this one received Elmer Keith's A-OK inspectors stamp, when he worked at the Ogden Arsenal post WW1. Still has original bluing, bore bright and shiny, shoots straight, built like a tank.

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I had one just like that with Keith stamp to and it was a Remington that was like new when I got it. I used to run in the desert with that rifle, I felt it was the ultimate survival rifle for a few years in early 80s I packed it away and gathered era accessories and sold it a couple years ago for a thousand with all the stuff. It was a 1.5 MOA rifle for me with National Match ammo !

 

[Gordon]

1892 made 1907 in 32-20 , a good shooter that I found on a local farm years back The 90 pump is a .22 WRF which is a terrific game killer ! People don't realize what type of gun was needed on earlier American farms
Upper a 20 gauge 1953 Model 24 28" modified and full and lower a 1953 30-30 1894 with Lyman peep - they are great game guns !

 

[Gordon]

My first centerfire hunting rifle given to me by my uncle Gil for high school graduation in 1964 , it is a 1952 Model 70 .270 with Unertl 4x scope. I used it many years for hunting when I wasn't overseas and of course being a gun enthusiast it got used less and less in the 80s and onward. Ill pass it downto grand kids, the kids got theirs

 

[G'dale Mike]

Here goes, from top to bottom, model 70’s
1) 300 H&H
2) 30-06
The remaining are all unfired
3) 270
4) 308
5) 243
6) model 88 in 308

 

[Gordon]

a 59 model 12 riot gun. This is a favorite and Louis Awerbuck thought it was abeauty too when I took it to a shot gun class. These model 12 riot guns were the ultimate to me before I fell in love with the 870. They are mechanical marvels and take down quickly and pretty small.

 

[Gordon]

I hunted this 30-06 Featherweight 1957 vintage in Idaho and Montana and Alaska . It is , regrettably (I would have preferred the .243s to be) the most accurate Featherweight I owned. With the proper load it produced 3 shot clover leafs at 100 yards from bags ! I am gonna have a hard time getting rid of it. It has the at the time top of the line Burris 1.5-5x scope on it and never gave me any problems ! .243 , looks like a Feather weight

.264 Westerner; my hunter ! My antelope/muledeer special, I pressure bedded it full length at a seminar held at a gunsmith in Prescott , Wells I think. . It is very accurate to 500 yards or more.

 

[Gordon]

I got a dozen pre 64s left ! I had almost 20 I believe. Here is and interesting one : a .308 Rifle with a 10x Unertl and a long range Lyman peep . I have shot the gun at 1000 yards and got about 24" groups with Lakecity Match ammo from prone slung up back in the day of course.

 

[22250Rem]

I've only owned one pre-64 Winchester in my life.... The Model 67 Winchester single shot .22 that my father acquired in the late 1930's. IIRC he got it used, and it's apparently an early production model, as this one has the finger grooves in the forend that were discontinued in late 1935. They were made from 1934 to 1963 so any Model 67 qualifies as a pre-64 Winchester. Too bad the pre-64 status isn't reflected in the price of them as I still see some occasionally at gun shows for reasonable prices.

 

[Offfhand]

M-21, two barrel set..

 

[Nature Boy]

My mouth is agape at @Gordon and @Offfhand collections

 

[Gordon]

Mine is nothing compared to his beautiful stuff

 

[ericuda]

1892 25-20 1918 date and no idea on the ted Williams by Sears and roebuck model 53. Knockoff but still winchester ? On date. Ser #u152xxx.

 

[jmr40]

A Winchester 94 and Marlin 336 in 30-30. Both built in 1958. Same year I was born.

 

[Offfhand]

Here's a couple more vintage (1950's) M-70's. Top is .300 H&H and below a .375 H&H. Both customized by Griffin & Howe and fitted with G&H QD scope mounts...

 

[Gordon]

I have a G&H customized with their mounts on a Mannlicher Shoenhauser 1956 .243 Carbine and a 1952 30-06 MS Carbine. with their mount. It was the best for the MS IMHO.

 

[Missionary]

Good morning
Seems back in the early years Winchester sent a pile of model 1892's in 44 WCF down here to Peru. Have seen a few in the most horrible conditions you can imagine. But here is one we rescued from further abuse. Model 1892 SRC in 44 WCF with a 16 1/8 barrel and the mag cut back to 14 inches. Made in 1907. I removed the ladder sight (still have it and not for sale) for the more simple rear sight. Was reblued before I found it.
Not a tack driver but will easily hold minute of wild dog at 40 yards. When desert walking we carry this with a single point sling through the saddle ring.


Decided to include a photo of the desert area I tend to enjoy. Outside of the big city of Arequipa (4.5 million in the valley) where we live and work. About 20 miles some what SSE is some high ground that few people get to. Very enjoyable with just the wind and a few desert critters.

 

[joed]

All beautiful rifles! Thanks everyone.

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

Pre-64? That should be easy as I don't own any 'new' Winchesters post 1964.


Might as well start with the oldest. Winchester Model 1886, 45/70, made in 1886. Yes, it has been refinished.






Model 1873, 38-40, 1887. All original except the magazine tube.






Model 1892 Rifle at top. 44-40, made in 1895. This was the first rifle I used in CAS for the first few years.
Model 1892 Saddle Ring Carbine, at bottom, 44-40, made in 1918.






Model 1892, 32-20. 1911. New barrel and magazine tube.





Model 1890, 2nd Model, 22 Short. 1906.






Model 1890, 3rd Model, 22 Long, 1908.






Model 1890, 3rd Model, 22 Long Rifle, 1928.






My Dad's little Model '06. 22 Short, Long, Long Rifle. Dad was a teenager in the 1930s. One day he told his dad that he wanted a 22 target rifle. Pop commuted into New York City every day, so one day he walked into the Abercombie and Fitch store on Madison Avenue. Abercrombie and Fitch had a huge store in those days, they were not the yuppie outfit they are today that just sells clothes on the internet. The store was ten stories tall and there was an entire floor devoted just to guns. There was even a shooting gallery in the basement. Anyway Pop was a great fisherman, but he didn't know anything about guns. So he came home with this little 22 gallery rifle and gave it to my dad. I don't think Dad ever had the heart to tell his dad that it wasn't what he wanted. He wanted a target rifle, probably a bolt action 22.






Here is a photo of Dad shooting the little Model '06 on the shores of Lake Kathadin in Maine in 1931. He would have been 15 at the time. You can see how the little gallery rifle is too small for Dad, he is all hunched up to shoot it.

Dig the knickers.

Anyway, Dad gave me the little '06 when I was about 14 and I will always cherish it as a memory of him.





Model 61. 22 Short, Long, Long Rifle. 1946.






My newest Winchester. A Model 1894 Carbine from somewhere in 1943-1948. Winchester dates get a little bit sketchy in that time frame. 30-30.

 

[TIMC]

Inherited this one, S/N makes it 1896 but barrel and sights are not correct for that time. Probably rebuild somewhere down the road. The old girl does shoot well so I’m not complaining.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

I'll play show and tell............
Model 1895 30 gov 1903 takedown made in 1914.

 

[Missionary]

Good evening
Digging through the "files" found a couple photos of our Model 1910 .401 Winchester made in 1912...

 

[Riomouse911]

All my Winchester rifles are post 1964...but I do have a well-hunted Model 12 16 gauge with a 2 3/4" chamber and a solid rib. It had an extra 18" plain cylinder barrel/fore end with the matching serial number that came with it, it looked similar to the picture Gordon posted above when it was mounted. For some reason my Grandfather traded the lone barrel/fore end off and it's long since gone elsewhere.
This old girl put away a LOT of turkey, bobwhite and dove, it is a 395xxx serial range from 1925:



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