This virtually unused, early turn-of-the century Winchester Model 1892 rifle was manufactured in 1903. This rifle has a 24-inch full octagon barrel in very desirable 44-40 caliber with full length magazine. The barrel has a sporting style front sight with nickel-silver blade and a sporting style buckhorn rear sight with screw adjustable center-piece and serrated edges. The stock and forearm are straight grain American walnut. The rifle barrel, magazine, forearm cap, receiver, trigger and bolt have the Winchester commercial blue finish. The loading gate is fire blue. The hammer, lever and crescent buttplate are color casehardened. The top barrel flat is roll-stamped: "MANUFACTURED BY THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO./NEW HAVEN. CONN. U.S.A. PATENTED OCTOBER 14. 1884." in two lines ahead of the rear sight. The caliber "44 W.C.F." is stamped on the top barrel flat between the rear sight and the receiver. The upper receiver tang is roll stamped: "MODEL 1892/-WINCHESTER-/TRADE MARK" in three lines. The serial number is roll-stamped across the underside of the receiver just behind the forearm.

Excellent. This rifle is all original and retains 98% of the original blue and color casehardened finish. The barrel, magazine and forearm retain virtually all of the original blue finish. The barrel legend and caliber marking are sharp. Nearly all of the blue finish is present on the receiver; wear is limited to some traces of edge wear and several very minor scratches. The loading gate retains 95% of the original nitre blue finish. The hammer and lever have nearly all of the subdued case colors. The case colors on the crescent buttplate have faded slightly but show minimal wear. The stock and forearm are excellent with nearly all of the original finish. Wear is limited to a few scattered and very insignificant storage marks. This is an excellent example of a Winchester Model 1892 lever action 44-40 rifle that remains in extraordinary, totally original condition. If you want to own one of the best, here it is!