Local gun shop like a Winchester museum!

[Rusty Goose]

I strolled into my favorite shop yesterday to see what had come in for consignment in the last month. My mind was blown right off of the start. A fella behind the counter that I have gotten to know has got me dialed in as the guy who likes old guns. He asked me if I wanted to see the most "cowboy thing ever?" He pulls a '73 Winchester saddle ring carbine of a rack full of Winchester and hands it to me. It was manufactured in 1875, it is in very nice shape with wear on either side of the muzzle from being slid in and out of a scabbard.

Apparently a local collector or the family of one has decided to have the shop sell the collection of over 45 rifles. I started hugging the long guns in the vain hope that some of coolness would rub off on me, it didn't.
He handed me a Henry 1860 rifle in awesome condition, two 1866 rifles also in rimfire. One a very early one, '66 or '67 and the a couple years later. Then a 1876, 1886... so many rare and beautiful original examples all made before the turn of the century.

I have no financial interest in the sale of the guns, I wish I had the means to buy the whole collection as it stands. If anyone is in the Sacramento area and want to check them out, go to J G Guns shop.
The last time I saw this many antique lever guns was in the Cody museum, and they frowned on my touching them.

Rusty

[grayscale]

Thanks for the tip! I'm going to Roseville on Tuesday for sure.

[Cessnapilot89]

This makes me sad to not be in California

[Rusty Goose]

I caved... while it is a lever gun, what I bought does not limit itself to just one projectile.

I am now waiting for my new to me Winchester 1887 to get out of CA jail. Chambered in 12 ga., manufactured in '87. Now on to learning a new skill. I have never taken the trouble to load shotgun shells. Now to start collecting paper hulls and cutting them down for 2 1/2 BP loads.

[Bad Ass Wallace]

My local dealer has a similar consignment, he showed me some Low walls 22WCF (which I bought), a 25/20SS (1908)in near mint condition, a 32WCF with a good shootable bore, and a 44/40 (1909)with near mint bore which is my next purchase (if not sold in the meantime).

He also has a '94 (1906) in 32/40 with 1/2 round 1/2 octagonal barrel "safari sights' and close coupled set trigger for $AU2500.