Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Winchester Collectors NEVER Buy a pre-64 Winchester

Never EVER buy your first pre-64 Winchester:

There was a time when I had no Winchesters.

Then I got this puppy:



Then this happened:



Now look at me:



Get out while you can and considered yourself warned.

I know what you speaketh of.

Now go shop for a M21 in 16 or 20 gauge!

You are cruel

you just have a itch! it gets worse !!!!





there some model 12's in the rotary rack,12ga,s and 20 ga's!! dont let this happen to you !!!!!! Don

Don,

I see a percussion front loader above the door. What is it? Thanks.

very nice....bet some bulls have been shot in those green chairs....

You need help

I like your cave Loggah

I know what you mean. I've lost count of mine, from pre-war 94s and 70s, post-war 94s and 70s, to a Winchester 1890 .22 Short. Just something about them. I have a Chinese replica of an 1897 Trench Gun, too. Would like the real one, though.

PS Back in the early 1980s, there was a find of thousands of these 1897 Trench Guns (maybe they had been in storage in South Korea), and a huge glut of them suddenly appeared on the US surplus market. Military surplus style gun shops had hundreds of them for $100.00 a piece (including one matching bayonet), packed in cosmoline. I remember looking at them, and thinking about picking one up, then deciding not to. I didn't know much about them back then, and to my eyes then they just looked like old pieces of junk. I wish I could send a message to myself back then to pick up a dozen of them at that price and put them in storage for the 2011 me.

Steve, Its a ohio built pennsylvania style target rifle made in 1857,47 caliber it weighs around 20 lbs. Don

Thanks Don.

Prone shooting I hope at 20 #.

I REALLY DON'T SEE WHAT ANY OF YOU SEE IN THE PRE64'S

JUST A TERRIBLE WASTE OF MONEY

How many pre-64 Winchesters have you gotten to know up close and personal?

I don't have any 94s , but I do have a Model 64 , and would like a 55 and a 94. I can't collect on a large basis , but would like a couple more at least.At one time I would not have considered buying any used guns , but in the last few years I have become increasingly interested in used guns.

Tell us all about what you like.....(?)

i don't see much differents in pre and post,except the price. i've owned a few and sold them.

And you like . . .?

Hey, I'm just glad you sold that SS/SYN. 7mm rem mag to me. It will, however, keep my pre 64's company.

I might wanta start taking the whole pill. That is some nice iron !

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