Winchester 1892 New Tang Safety Model

[Pop Watts]

What say you Gentlemen?
Should I buy one?
Just had a look at one in 357 at my local dealers today and it looked lovely.
Anyone had personal experience with one?
Pop.

[klhill]

I just bought one at the LGS.Used but looks unfired, 357, round barrel rifle with crescent butt and CC'd reciever. Have not had a chance to shoot it but the fit & finish looks great.

[Nate Kiowa Jones]

Buy it if the price is right then convert all the rebounding hammer, inertia firing pin, tang safety junk to traditional 1/4 cock hammer, full length firing pin, fire control parts.
Now you got the best of both worlds. modern steel with traditional fire control action.

This one also got the tang safety welded up then color-cased.


This one because it was coin finished got plugged.

[Canuck Bob]

I have one of the Davidson 92 Deluxe Takedown 32-20 models in the japanese rifle. I am very happy. The fit and finish makes it the nicest rifle I've ever owned. As nice as any high end rifle I've looked at in the same price range. I do not find the safety a big deal. The rebound hammer does bother me a bit but does not cause any function hassles. That is an easy fix with web sites showing how, either DIY or very easy for a smith. I keep procrastinating on doing mine and it will probably become a permanent member of my to do list.

The rifle is not drilled and tapped for receiver or tang sights. There is a tang sight available for the safety models. The buckhorn sight is my most disliked sight system. However it is very traditional. My DIY list includes mounting a Lyman steel 66. The crescent plate is very pretty but not as functional for me as a standard butt. I find the length of pull a little short on this rifle and all Winchester levers for that matter. If I could I'd add a pad to lengthen things. I am big and like my LOP north of 14".

Mine has the long 24" octagon barrel and is surprisingly barrel heavy with the little 32 caliber hole. The lines of the rifle are incredibly pretty. However a standard carbine in 357 would be a very nice rifle and very functional.

If I seem negative about the rifle I'm not. Just trying to answer your question honestly. I am proud to own mine. I am VERY happy with the take-down function and the custom rifle tolerances in the mechanism. I consider it my only semi-custom gun I'll ever own. I would suggest that extra money for the rifle was in the fine fit and finish and custom features. It is expensive to build that way and worth it to me. If that is not important a lot of comparable rifle can be bought for less.

[Neumann]

The 1892 in .357 Magnum is an outstanding choice. It's cheap to shoot and plenty of power for a whitetail if you hunt. The recoil is minimal.

I replaced the rear sight with a Skinner barrel mount peep sight. It's a lot easier for old eyes to shoot and retains most of the traditional look and feel of the '92.

[Pop Watts]

Thankyou very much for your responses.
After reading what you had to say I rang my dealer and committed to buying it.
Now we wait for the Australian registry paperwork to get sorted and I will pick it up in about two weeks.
Will let you know what I think when I get it.
Thanks again for the responses.
Pop.

[Canuck Bob]

you won't regret it Pop. Congrats

[Malamute]

The rifle is not drilled and tapped for receiver or tang sights. There is a tang sight available for the safety models. The buckhorn sight is my most disliked sight system.

If one removes the tang safety system, the standard tang sights cover the safety hole. I'm not bashful about drilling and tapping guns for receiver sights though, I like them vastly more than tang sights.

I'm not a fan of buckhorns either. Swapping them for flat topped sights helps (Browning used otherwise identical sights but with flat tops on some models, the 53's perhaps?), or they could be filed flat across the top.


Sounds like a fun gun in 357.

[williamranks]

I've got one of the 1892 Deluxe take downs in 44-40. Took a long time for me to convince myself it was OK to shoot it. Too pretty and I was afraid of scratching it.
It shoots tight enough for me and I like the safety for unloading.

[Malamute]

I guess I'm funny, I cant wait to shoot most guns I get. I've put the first rounds through a number of commemorative Winchesters that survived 20-40 years unfired, and the 92 with the gold animals has been shot like anything else.

[Old Savage]

Have a tang sight on a 94, works fine.