Winchester Model 1894 Sporting Rifle manufactured in 1896. The rifle has a full octagon barrel and full-length magazine. The barrel has a sporting style front sight with nickel-silver blade and a special order "Winchester Express" three leaf rear sight with platinum sight lines. The rifle has a blued barrel, magazine, forearm cap and receiver. The hammer, lever, trigger and crescent buttplate have a color casehardened finish. The stock and forearm are straight grain American walnut The rifle is fitted with a straight tube telescopic sight with cross-hair reticle in an off-set mount attached to the top of the barrel and right side of the receiver. The off-set mount enables the ejection port to function properly and permits quick use of the barrel mounted rear sight. The telescopic sight has an un-marked, 3/4-inch diameter steel tube with no provision for external sight adjustment. The scope is low (2x-3x) power. The sight is attached to the right side of the receiver by a sliding bar with large knurled set screw and a dovetail mounted base/ring combination on the barrel ahead of the rear sight. The receiver set screw permits rough elevation adjustments. The top barrel flat is roll-stamped with the two-line legend: "MANUFACTURED BY THE/WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN CONN. U.S.A." ahead of the rear sight. "NICKEL STEEL BARREL/ESPECIALLY FOR SMOKELESS POWDER" is roll-stamped in two lines on the left side of the barrel behind the rear sight. The caliber "25-35 W.C.F." is stamped on the top barrel flat between the rear sight and the receiver. The upper tang is roll-stamped: "MODEL 1894/-WINCHESTER-/PAT. AUG. 21. 1884" in three lines. The serial number "1041701" is roll-stamped across the bottom of the receiver. The telescopic sight is professionally mounted and appears to be contemporary to the rifle. Nineteenth century Winchester lever action rifles with telescopic sights are extremely rare.