My father used to hunt with a lever action Winchester ? 38-55 I think that had a round barrel. He got rid of it years ago, to hard to find ammo. Course my mother hunted with an old Octagon barrel 44-40 Winchester, that thing weighed a ton to carry around. I've always hunted with my trusty 30-30 though, most common deer rifle up here in the northeast.
Nope, close though. It's a .44 Magnum. Supposed to be a bear gun, but I like bears so I guess it's a wall gun now. I haven't been hunting anything in years now.
Good guesses guys, I don't know how many of those they made but they're not too common.
Haven't seen one here. Must have been upgrade from the old Octagon barrel 44-40 that my mother hunted with. Saw that thing knock more than one deer end over end. Heavy slug not high velocity. That was almost impossible to find ammo for as well. Thanks for the info.
Model 1894s are the best!! I haven't seen one in a .44 mag before, I was going to say it was maybe a .32-40, but you're right...the spread of the bore in the muzzle is pretty big! Here's my 1894, a regular .30-30 WCF, but it's a Saddle-Ring model and was manufactured in 1907. Still shoots like the day it was made! (well, at least I think so... I wasn't around until 53 years after it was made...[])