Browning 1895

[Dan Cash]

A New Old Stock Browning remake of the the Winchester 1895 came to our home to live. It is 1980s vintage so it is without the modernistical tang safety and super improved rebounding hammer. This -06 is geneerally pretty nice BUT----. Butt plate is the most plain piece of tin I have ever seen on a mid priced rifle and the magazine only holds 4 rounds instead of the five that go into my other 1895 (1900 Winchester). The butt plate I can replace but the magazine??

It looks like the magazine follower has a tab on it which bottoms out to limit capacity. I can take it apart and modivy the follower but, how difficult is it to reassemble the 1895 magazine?

Do any of you folks have experience with and options for this situation?

[Don McDowell]

Dan if you can get a copy of the 1916 Winchester catalog, there's detailed instruction about disassembling the 1895.
Good find by the way. I keep thinking one of those in 30-40 would be a nice addition to the safe.

[J.B.]

Good find by the way. I keep thinking one of those in 30-40 would be a nice addition to the safe.

.. Don I spied a 30/40 in a Montana gunshop a couple of years back when on the way to the Q. Was the military set up with the top wood and military sights. Among quite a few other items in that store.... I soooooo wanted to take it home but it was not to be

Gavin.

[Dan Cash]

Dan if you can get a copy of the 1916 Winchester catalog, there's detailed instruction about disassembling the 1895.
Good find by the way. I keep thinking one of those in 30-40 would be a nice addition to the safe.

My other 95 is a .30=40 and it is all the gun I could ever want but it seemed that there ought to be an 06 to go with it or just because or to keep the Modle 70 company or......

Thanks for the tip on the catalogue. I am not so concerned about disassembly as I am about putting it back together.

[Don McDowell]

Dan if I ever stumble across another deal on a 95 in 35 winchester like the one that was at Ekalaka a few years ago, it will belong to me with in minutes.
Love those 95's.

[Kurt]

I had a 95 Win in the .405 but I wasn't to fond of it. Caught my trigger finger between the lever and the trigger drawing blood several times

[Don McDowell]

My 405 os quite possibly my favorite rifle.

[Kurt]

My 95 had a pretty dark and rough bore but it's one of the few rifles I sold but with I had back.

[Dan Cash]

I could not stand it any longer so out came the screwdrivers and I took the magazine out of the 95. Disassembly is no problem. The tab that limits the townward movement of the lifter and related components is not on the follower but still hits the bottom of the magazine preventing the magazine from holding more than 4 rounds. The tab got chopped like the gator got your granny.

Reassembly was simple but did require a fabricated slave pin. The magazine now holds 5 rounds but there is insufficient clearance to close the bolt on a 5 round magazine, so the blasted thing only effectively holds 4. Other than that, I like the gun

Thanks for the encouragement.

[Kurt]

Dan.

I think the reason for the 4 rounds in a mag is because some states only allow 5 rounds loaded for hunting. That is 4 in the mag and one chambered maximum. Here in Illinois I can't use a centerfire rifle at all and the shot gun is restricted to three rounds total. Two in the tube and one chambered.