Found a 1897 in my Barn that I forgot about for 40 years 😟 A little surface rust, but it cleaned up well 🙂 Now ,shoots great and still looks great ✝️🇺🇸😀
Another great installment, thank you I really enjoy the stories of how folks acquire their collections, and stories like yours give us all hope to find these diamonds, and ALSO to pay attention when selling things 4th thumb up
I have personally saw at least five Winchester 1893 shotguns, including the one that I own. All of the guns I encountered were being sold for less than 500.
too bad youtube throttles gun channels because this channel deserves to have thousands of subs by now! Been here since the start and i love it. I am a huge gun nerd though...
Once again this is the same inet crap u hear constantly there are alot of Winchester 93s destoyed wrong..........Many of them where send back and upgraded by changing bolt and carrier and so a bit of machine work it was much cheaper then scrapping a gun and give customers a new gun....Car that have errors are fixed wenn they have faults from the factory and the same happend with 93s. A 93 need to have that cut out cause the firing pin is in the bolt and its under a angle if that cut out was not made and the receiver kept having that thick lair of metal over the bolt i would bump into the firing pin as the firing pin has maybe 1 mm steel covering it on a 93 bolt. If u know how a 1893/1897 lock the action u know the bolt is locked by the carrier and the carrier is the one that endures all recoil and give it off to the back of the receiver near where u hold it with ure hand,the receiver is all solid there....The open top doesnt have 0.0 to do with strenght of the receiver. John browning never invented the 93 or 97 what he did was he made the principal of how these 2 guns works Winchester patented it and refined it and released it as the Winchester model 1893 and model 1897 in fact u can make from a 1893 a 100% identical gun to a 1897 by using all 97 parts except u use a 93 receiver and convert that to 97...How i know that: th-cam.com/users/shortsJeqeIjYJunI I work with these 93s alot cause by law we cant have 97s but we can own 93s but i know so many people that shoot every smokeless load of them for years including slugs and nothing breaks... But a 93 is very unsafe gun and the 97 is not really a diffent gun its the same principal and internal sizes of parts it just has a few upgrades but the design is the same its just a 93 that has closed top of the receiver and some safety upgrades added but like i said. U can swap barrels as the very early 97s had left over barrels from the 93s mag tubes have the same treath but 97 mag tubes are a bit deeper in the receiver but if ure handy can make them fit,action bars fit they need a small modification if u use a 93 one in a 97,trigger groups fit stocks fit if u have the matching bolt as 97 stocks have s shorter bolt and bolt and carrier need a bit of machine work and filing but u can make 97 parts fit a 93 pretty easy as i converted liek 12 93,s to 97 function so they became a safe to use gun.
@@kristinejackson8268 Well yes and no meaning i wont advice it but the wad that contains the shot makes sure there is no contact between shot and barrel,if u dont have a choke yes u can shoot it safely,but would it be my first choise no,i saw many many barrels that had minimal scratsches in them like a hair thick,and i think thats caused by the steelshot but maybe it where hand loaded shells with no plastic wad but a felt wad.
Congratulations you took advantage of someone.
I was thinking the same thing...
Found a 1897 in my Barn that I forgot about for 40 years 😟
A little surface rust, but it cleaned up well 🙂
Now ,shoots great and still looks great ✝️🇺🇸😀
Another great installment, thank you
I really enjoy the stories of how folks acquire their collections, and stories like yours give us all hope to find these diamonds, and ALSO to pay attention when selling things
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Great talk on the 1893.....learned a bunch...Thank You.
Thanks Mr. Williams for part 2, and the history lesson. Winchester and John Browning divorce gotta see that one !
It is being filmed as we speak. Next Tuesday it should be up! Thanks for following along
Another good job, Jeff!
This guy bought a 1893 for 250 bucks? Hit the damn jackpot
I have personally saw at least five Winchester 1893 shotguns, including the one that I own. All of the guns I encountered were being sold for less than 500.
Great deals.
Great video !
too bad youtube throttles gun channels because this channel deserves to have thousands of subs by now! Been here since the start and i love it. I am a huge gun nerd though...
Just bought a 1901. Very clean. Just gotta buy some shells or load my own.😢
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Kind of short on 1901 details. Just saying.
Can you use steel shot in the 1897.
No. The barrels are to soft and you will ruin the choke.
Once again this is the same inet crap u hear constantly there are alot of Winchester 93s destoyed wrong..........Many of them where send back and upgraded by changing bolt and carrier and so a bit of machine work it was much cheaper then scrapping a gun and give customers a new gun....Car that have errors are fixed wenn they have faults from the factory and the same happend with 93s.
A 93 need to have that cut out cause the firing pin is in the bolt and its under a angle if that cut out was not made and the receiver kept having that thick lair of metal over the bolt i would bump into the firing pin as the firing pin has maybe 1 mm steel covering it on a 93 bolt.
If u know how a 1893/1897 lock the action u know the bolt is locked by the carrier and the carrier is the one that endures all recoil and give it off to the back of the receiver near where u hold it with ure hand,the receiver is all solid there....The open top doesnt have 0.0 to do with strenght of the receiver.
John browning never invented the 93 or 97 what he did was he made the principal of how these 2 guns works Winchester patented it and refined it and released it as the Winchester model 1893 and model 1897 in fact u can make from a 1893 a 100% identical gun to a 1897 by using all 97 parts except u use a 93 receiver and convert that to 97...How i know that:
th-cam.com/users/shortsJeqeIjYJunI
I work with these 93s alot cause by law we cant have 97s but we can own 93s but i know so many people that shoot every smokeless load of them for years including slugs and nothing breaks...
But a 93 is very unsafe gun and the 97 is not really a diffent gun its the same principal and internal sizes of parts it just has a few upgrades but the design is the same its just a 93 that has closed top of the receiver and some safety upgrades added but like i said.
U can swap barrels as the very early 97s had left over barrels from the 93s mag tubes have the same treath but 97 mag tubes are a bit deeper in the receiver but if ure handy can make them fit,action bars fit they need a small modification if u use a 93 one in a 97,trigger groups fit stocks fit if u have the matching bolt as 97 stocks have s shorter bolt and bolt and carrier need a bit of machine work and filing but u can make 97 parts fit a 93 pretty easy as i converted liek 12 93,s to 97 function so they became a safe to use gun.
Can you shot steel load in and 1897
@@kristinejackson8268 Well yes and no meaning i wont advice it but the wad that contains the shot makes sure there is no contact between shot and barrel,if u dont have a choke yes u can shoot it safely,but would it be my first choise no,i saw many many barrels that had minimal scratsches in them like a hair thick,and i think thats caused by the steelshot but maybe it where hand loaded shells with no plastic wad but a felt wad.
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Great video!