Not an 1895, they were all 303 Savage. It's almost surely a first year 1899 with serial number between 15.000 and 19.000, which is when they were offering the 30-30 marked as 30 Savage. Winchester was selling the cartridge as 30 WCF, but Savage and Marlin balked at putting WCF on their rifles. After a few months Savage switched to 30-30.


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