I Continue to Find the Strange and Unusual

David LaPell · Post by **David LaPell** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:49 am

I ran across something unusual today and decided to get it. Someone at one time took this .30-30 Model 94 Winchester, made it into a takedown gun, and also cut the barrel down to 16-inches like a trapper. The release is on the underside of the barrel where someone milled out the front barrel band and put a button to release the mag. With the action open, the button is pushed (sticks right now but it does work) and the mag tube is slid forward and then the gun can be taken down. Whoever did it also added set screws to the top of both barrel bands to make it more solid. It's a post-64 gun so the collector value isn't there, but there was a level of craftsmanship here that you don't see often with guns like this.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:03 am

That's a cool find, congratulations......

fordwannabe · Post by **fordwannabe** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:11 am

I really like that. Very cool.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:25 am

That would make a dandy traveling gun. Backpack size as well. Good find.

Joe

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:37 am

That's cool as all get out! Great find.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 1:03 pm

THATS an interesting gun......top notch craftsmanship with a "neato factor" of 100.

I don't like alternations from factory original but this gun you have is definitely an exception. I saw a carbine some years back that was altered in that way but the work was semi professional.

That gun makes me think of the neato Marlin 336 that that Fordwannabe guy robbed me of.---6

hfcable · Post by **hfcable** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 3:23 pm

I have a model 92 that had been converted to 44 magnum, shortened to the trapper length, and had the same take down system done.....I believe the gunsmith was somewhere in south Carolina, but that was more than 20 years ago

it is a great little gun and fun and accurate.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 3:34 pm

Very nice.... VERY!

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:34 pm

It's too bad that whoever did it didn't engrave their name or something. Even if it was just a one time event to make such a gun, at least that way you could probably find out something about the person who made it just for the historical interest. A lot of firearms hobbyists wound up getting trained as machinists during the post-world war industrial boom, and had unprescedented financial luxury, so spent the last 20-30 years of their life developing guns and cartridges. Kinda jealous, but they sure did leave the rest of us a legacy.

hfcable · Post by **hfcable** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:46 pm

way back, there was a gunsmith advertising these modifications with ads in shotgun news and gun list..... doubt if I could find the info now, but I got the impression they were doing a fair number of them.

fordwannabe · Post by **fordwannabe** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:58 pm

Pretty detailed article in the NRA gunsmithing book (mine is a 1966 edition) of that conversion. I still like it.
AND YES SIXGUN, I did get that gun from you and I was shooting it last Sunday with friends.

2ndovc · Post by **2ndovc** » Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:18 am

Well that's cool!

jb

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Thu Aug 22, 2019 8:44 am

Very neatly done. What a useful modification, especially for backpacking as J Miller suggests.

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