New To Me Winchester Low Wall

[Rbertalotto]

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!

[Mike]

According to Madis, that was made in 1887. Some doin's! Shoot sharp, Mike

[Don McDowell]

Is it just me, or is that front sight in backwards?

[Rbertalotto]

Yes...I think you are right! The same hammerhead that screwed up the firing pin retainer screw must have mounted the front sight!

BTW...See my new post on converting it from RF to CF