New To Me Winchester Low Wall

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UPS just dropped off a little Winchester 1885 Low Wall that I picked up on GunBroker a couple days ago.





It needs love but is in much better shape than I expected. Not bad for $495.00!

It needs a barrel lining so I just ordered a liner from TJ and the appropriate pilot drill bit from PTG. It is currently a 32 Short but it will be a 32-20.

The wood is excellent and metal has been reblued. It has a fair amount of pitting under the new blue job, but not too bad.

Serial number is 13554 so I need to research the DOM

The bore is horrible. Worse I've ever seen. Seems they took reasonable care of the outside but never cleaned the bore.

It needs a bit of my TIG welder and then redrilled and tapped to retain the firing pin.


And I don't believe this is correct...

I'm sure there was a more elegant way of securing the lever pin?

The wood is pretty nice



As is the barrel and most of the receiver...



Since I don't have much $$ into this rifle it might be a good candidate to try case hardening....Ya just can't have enough projects sitting on the bench!