1918 Winchester 1892 .357 Mag Trapper Takedown

[Hagler]

Gents,

Like the title says...

http://v2.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIte ... =169775863





...your thoughts?

Shawn

[Alan Wood]

Worth about 50 cents if you ask me. If it is a 1918 manufactured rifle it has been rebarreled or rechambered. 357 magnum out of the older recievers strikes me as askin for trouble. Could be wrong but well saftey first. Back to the point at hand it is clearly not an original takedown from 1918. 357 magnum didn exist till at least a decade later.

[Booger Bill]

I dont know what the remodeled gun is worth, but get real, it aint worth $5,000s, but I would give a whole lot of .50 cent pieces for it. That gun looks to me like a real professional gunsmith did it and I think he knew what he was doing. I had a similar winchester 92 octogon barreled rifle done over 30 years ago and it turned out well. Mine I had bought when I was about 15 years old back in 1956. It looked like it had been sitting under a chicken coop for 40 years. It was in 25-20 with a very bad bore. Back in about 1975 I had it totaly restored, sent the barrel I think to either ward coozer or bain & davis and rerifled. I found new wood and had a gunsmith friend (Bill Choats) bush the fireing pin and put the gun together and blue it after a close buddy meticulesly polished it. I stupidly traded it or sold it. That gun looked like the factory made it yesterday! The 92 action is proven and I am sure its safe for .357 even way back. People tell me the 92 is stronger than the 94! Right now I have a browning 92 in .44 mag and a puma in .357. A guy I know has a beauty pretty much like that one on gun broker converted to .256 winchester mag. Thats what I would like another in!

[Hobie]

Isn't Gunig a respected old -time gunsmith?

Not worth $5000 but it was likely a .25-20 take-down converted and with the other work (re-blue, engraving, inlay). Neat gun but for the price. The .357 Mag is likely at the limit for the old metallurgy. I've seen .44 Mag conversions that were battered from use. How many rounds that took was unknown but probably less than 1000. The .357 Mag has lots less breech thrust and is likely ok but bears examination. I wonder how much it would cost Steve Young to duplicate. I like it.

[firefuzz]

I'd love to have that tang sight.

Rob

[rjohns94]

I asked steve if he could do a takedown version and he declined. I would love to have my 92 (357) as a takedown. I haven't pursued it with other Smiths, not knowing of many that would do that. I also asked WWG if they would do it and they said no too.

[slamfire]

Armi Chiappa makes a take-down:
http://www.armisport.com/eng/armiAS.asp?idFamiglia=6

[Mike D.]

It was probably an original TD rifle, but it was "bubba-ized" into a carbine of sorts. I don't like the gawdawful ramp on the short barrel, or the overpolished blue job. I don't care who made it, it isn't the opener to me.

[pokey]

this one is a '92 made in 1907. she was converted to .357 many moons ago.
no trouble so far.

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the one on GB is kinda a strange little duck,but i would not turn it
down if the wife bought it for me.

[Griff]

I asked steve if he could do a takedown version and he declined. I would love to have my 92 (357) as a takedown. I haven't pursued it with other Smiths, not knowing of many that would do that. I also asked WWG if they would do it and they said no too.

See Mike Hunter.

[rangerider7]

I don't think I would take on a buffalo with that lever a foot.

[Booger Bill]

pokey, I just now seen your picture and post on your converted 92. Except for the front sight and wear, that gun looks like the same rifle I had converted in the early 70s in california. I stupidly sold it at a gun show. Just wondering if it found its way to washington?!

[Gun Smith]

Do you have a problem with those straight walled 357 cases "stovepiping" in you cartridge guides when you are chambering live rounds or ejecting empties?

[pokey]

pokey, I just now seen your picture and post on your converted 92. Except for the front sight and wear, that gun looks like the same rifle I had converted in the early 70s in california. I stupidly sold it at a gun show. Just wondering if it found its way to washington?!

maybe so,maybe so.
she has some plug screws in the top barrel flat, [old scope mount]
that sound familiar?

[pokey]

Do you have a problem with those straight walled 357 cases "stovepiping" in you cartridge guides when you are chambering live rounds or ejecting empties?

no stovepipes, the thing she does is sometimes a cartridge will bind up going into the chamber.
if i feed her 38 brass she's happier.

[Booger Bill]

Pokey, no, my barrel was straight.

[Sixgun]

It was probably an original TD rifle, but it was "bubba-ized" into a carbine of sorts. I don't like the gawdawful ramp on the short barrel, or the overpolished blue job. I don't care who made it, it isn't the opener to me.

Mike, you and I think alike.-----------Sixgun

[Olevern]

"I asked steve if he could do a takedown version and he declined "

Mike,
A number of years I saw at a South Jersey Sportsman's Jamboree a takedown made by

R & R Gunsmiths
35 West Groveland Avenue
Somers Point, NJ 08244-2000
(609) 653-9580

Beautiful job, great work and, at least at the time, great prices.
You might want to inquire there.

Olevern

[WyrTwister]

I have a M 92 made about in 1896 - 1898 . Some one / some time converted it to .357 Mag . Around 24" oct barrel . A lot of fun to shoot .

God bless
Wyr