![]() ![]() Its more likely its older and been re-barreled than they missed marking a number, is my guess. I just got your reply notification Polecat. They dropped the 18 in 1894 in the late teens I believe. I think it was a bit later they went to the lightning style tang lettering, but I havent looked at The Winchester Book in a while and dont recall. I will peek under the forearm next time I am down there, now I am curious!Ĭlick to expand. Personally, I subscribe to the rebarrel theory, but I am probably biased towards wanting it to be as old as possible. I suppose it's possible that it was of wartime manufacture and they forgot to strike a number onto the end and it's actually 1,3xx,xxx, and the family's oral history is wrong, but I dunno. I am not sure exactly when he was born, it's worn off the gravestone (I guess he was too cheap to buy a better one, lol) and nobody seems to know anymore. He was tighter than a $2 fiddle, too, so I expect he bought it used. My grandpap was youngest, after 4 girls, but even so I think that would probably make my great grandpap very young in 1897. I know he had it before by grandpap was born, which was 1930. It's a 13x,xxx serial number, so that's where I got 1897 from. I'm just going by the serial number on the receiver and the documentation on the Winchester web site, as far as when it was made. ![]()
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