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73 Winchester Musket.

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#1 ·
44-40 cal. Sir#37116x. Yr 1891 . Missing the 2 center barrel bands, the access cap in the butt plate, and the rear sight. O, and the finish on the barrel. It was sanded to clean it up(not by me). 30" with good bore. Some rust pitting. Action feels good but dirty. Would it be worth sending it off for a cleanup or not? Are barrel bands or the rear sight available? What is it worth as is? Thanks.
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You might not, George, but Winchester did. They made three versions of their lever guns.

The rifle. Had a very pronounced curve to the buttplate, a metal forend cap, and the magazine tube was held to the barrel by a dingus dovetailed into the bottom of the barrel. Notice, no barrel bands on the rifle. Barrel was normally 24 inches, but could be any length. Barrel was also heavier, and could be either round or octagonal.


The carbine. Had a much more shallower curve to the butt, the forend was plain wood, and the magazine tube was held in with two barrel bands. Barrel was normally 20 inches, but could be shorter. Barrel was always round, and had thinner barrel walls than a rifle.


The musket. Had the carbine-style butt, but had an extremely long barrel - 30 inches. Had wood all the way to the muzzle, and usually a bayonet lug. Forearm was held on by three or more barrel bands. Usually had sling swivels. They were trying to sell them to the Army. Any Army - ours or someone elses'.
 
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one for sale that is complete and not refinished but "orginal" finish. in good shooting condition 44-40 selling for $1995 asking price.
one missing pieces and having been worked over by "sanding" in maybe wort a third or at most half of that.

Remember that was the "asking" price..may sell for lower also.
 
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Back in the day "Ye Old Hunter" would advertise a variety of firearms from South America in the "American Rifleman". One batch included 1873 Muskets and some Marlin rifles. One of the local dealers had previously lived in DC and would travel to that company to buy up firearms that were in stock but in too small numbers to advertise. He would share that you could tell what came in from the aroma from the grease that was being cleaned off the various arms prior to sale. That company probably had at least one example one every Remington RB ever made for sale. Those were in the pre-68 gun law days.
 
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Not really. As the story went they would degrease these old rifles in large numbers at the same time. For example, when the Spanish arms came in the whole water front smell like fish so the story went. Those folks were not cleaning up one gun at a time. As I recall the story, wood and all would be put into the cleaning fluid.
 
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