I'd say if you like shooting a lever action I'd use it and enjoy it, with smaller caliber rifles its all about shot placement and the more you use it the more comfortable you'll get with it. My 32-20 works best with cast lead bullets and under 100yds is a real tack-driver, its not often you run across these in original chambering that have pristine barrels due to use of black powder and lack of cleanliness by the user.
The only thing I believe you may find is that the barrel probably is set up for lead bullets and may not deliver its best accuracy potential with a jacketed bullet. It looks like along with the re-chambering that they reblued the rifle which further takes away from its inherent collectible value. The original owner put a real nice Redfield peep sight on the receiver which dropped it collector value considerably. 32 WCF and is a joy to shoot, although just a little tricky to reload due to very thin case mouth. He ran an apple orchard and claimed to have shot quite a few deer and other varmints with it. The guy I got it from had purchased it from the original owner back in the 60's. I have a '92 that was manufactured in early 1900's then rebarreled in the early 20's by Winchester. Is your barrel lined or rebored? I would like to do one in. Wish I would have kept the ones I converted 40 years ago. Here is my 357 and 44 mag clones, also a old 44/40. If you want to get rid of that gun give me a quote. With the 30/30 I once killed a buck at 220 yards, but that was a fluke and I probley shouldnt have tried it. 357 loaded hot as just about as good of a killer as the 30/30! I would keep it in 125 to 150 yards, myself. You will get a ton of accurate information and plenty of admiration for your gun! So, I consider myself somewhat experianced on your question.įirst go over to levergunner and as the same questions and show your pictures. Along with them I own a old 94 and 64 original winchesters in 30/30s. Right now I own a rossi in 357 and a 92 browning in. I also had a 73 winchester redone to 38 special after that, that was a shot out 32-20. Through the years I have had 5 92 winchesters and clones. Are these at all interesting enough that I shouldn't do this to her? Should she remain the safe queen that she is? 30-30 out, I keep getting the feeling that this old girl may be a more tote friendly option with many more years left in her. This is supposed to be my big break into deer hunting this year and while I was going to take a Marlin 336 in. 32 WCF which I actually would find more fun shooting than the. She is 173XXX and from what I can find she was made around 1900 and was once a. I know any and all collector value dumps right there, but just how common are these? This is one great looking lever gun even though it is not longer in it's original chambering, what was done to it was done with much care. So I have this older 1892 that at some point was rebarreled into.
#WINCHESTER MODEL 1892 VALUE HOW TO#
After all, I can use the search function and learn how to cook a snapping turtle or identify rare flowers so maybe this is an easier question. Short of joining a Winny forum for the fact that I own only two of them, I thought I would pose this question here.
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