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I have a Miroku-made Limited Series Winchester 1886 in .45-90 that my Dad wants me to try to sell for him. The rifle is in excellent condition with box and papers but has been used and hunted with. The metal is in near perfect shape with some marks on the loading gate and the face of the hammer. The wood has some scratches. It has a 26 inch octagonal barrel and full length magazine. He has somewhere around 100 rounds of .45-90 ammo and also some once-fired brass that will go with the rifle, shipped separately of course. I'll try to get a count on the ammo. He's asking $1800 OBO for it all. He decided to let his FFL lapse so make sure your FFL will accept shipment from a non-FFL.

I'll post some pictures as soon as I can. Thanks for looking.

So far, I've found 111 rounds:

*48 300gr. cast lead in Starline brass from Ultramax. This has had the bullet filed slightly shorter as it was apparently made for single shots and was too long for the lifter.
*33 325gr. Hornady FTX in Starline brass. This was loaded by a local licensed gunsmith with 50+ years in the business.
*20 300gr. Hornady hollowpoints (I think XTP) in Jameson brass. From a gunshow.
*10 300gr. Hornady XTP in starline brass. Also by gunsmith.

Did he always shoot black powder cartridges in it? How does the bore look?

It's never had black powder and almost always jacketed bullets, Leverevolutions mostly. The bore is excellent. Thanks for asking.

Odd. The rifle is only rated for BP as shown in one of the photos you posted of the barrel. Or did you mean that it was shot with BP substitutes.

The rifle is exactly the same as the ones in .45-70 just with a longer chamber. It is perfectly fine with smokeless. I have no idea why they decided to mark it as a BPCR.

Ad withdrawn, rifle sold locally.