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Ha, Ha... this is one wooped 1894

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xtriggerman:
  So, I have a Marlin 1893 in 25-35 and every now and then I look threw GB to see other old timers in that caliber. This one comes up at a interesting price so I click on it and man oh man..... Visions of a one eyed back mountain trapper Jeb starts to form in my mind..... Talk about if the ol Winchester could tell stories....  There's got to be a 3 part volume in this one. The canoe paddle story would be one of the better ones? IDK but the pictures are worth the time over the clicker!

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1000127892

Onepoint:
Or someone left it in a barn, and forgot about the barn.

xtriggerman:

--- Quote from: Onepoint on August 16, 2023, 03:08:44 PM ---Or someone left it in a barn, and forgot about the barn.

--- End quote ---

  Definitely not a barn gun. If you look close at the forend wood, you can see the softer "growing" grain has been worn in beyond the harder, tighter, winter grain. You only get that kind of ware from a great many hours in some ones hand not to mention the lack of finish at the bottom wood to metal balance point. The buttstock is another clue to its being a long, long time getting very wet and dry. The moon like surface grain as with the forend shown the softer open grain has literally surface rotted away in a great many soakings, leaving the harder grain as the high ridges. This old gun being offered in Oregon has spent an awful long time in the hands of a man who lived off this rifle in a wet climate.  Just an intriguing history of use seldom seen.

Hodgie:
Well she sure doesn’t lack any character, that’s for sure.

Definitely a keeper in my book.

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