Winchester 1894

And yet the 1894 was praised as one of Brownings best, most simplistic lever gun designs....

It's the same with my 1897... Beautiful shotgun that runs flawlessly, but I dare not take it apart too far, for fear that I'll never get the thing back together. D:

RaniDart70 said
the semi auto was fun ...really exciteing how the shell comes out the side, but the lever action was tooo fun....both had some mega re-coil and bruised the heck out of my shoulder.
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.22's shouldn't have that much recoil. You sure you were shouldering them correctly?

RaniDart70 said
i have seen some pretty old stuff .....my uncle has some old WWII german rifles and your right about the idea of when looking at such an old unit...you cant help but imagine what it has been through in life.

when i saw the old German rifle (not sure what it is) i thought that maybe it was fired by a young German boy in Normandy who might have been very afraid as he realized the allied forces were closing in on the beach.

Or maybe it was used in a battle between the Germans and Russian forces.

either way my imagination gets running bcoz i love history and you cant help but wonder.
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Ya, thus is the awesome mystery of old Military Surplus rifles... The German rifle was most likely a Mauser 98k; one of the most popular mil-surp rifles in the USA. :)


- CK