Image:Winchester rifle grko474 rifle.jpg

Original caption reads:

"Centerfire Rifle

"c 1894

"This 30-30 Winchester Model lever-action rifle belonged to Kohrs’ son-in-law, John Boardman. He managed Kohrs’ eastern Montana cattle operations in later years.

"Steel, wood, plastic. L 117 cm

"Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, GRKO 474"

This is almost certainly not a Winchester rifle--definitely not a model 1894; the Winchester lever action rifles seem to all have had straight-grip stocks until the 1920s, when the Model 53 was introduced. So far, the only lever action rifle with a pistol grip stock in .30-30 I can find is the Marlin 1893; "28-32 in. round or octagonal barrels, 10 shot tube mag, straight or pistol grip stock. Mfg. 1893-1936". My blue book doesn't explicitly state that the Winchester model 1892 had a straight grip stock, but all the pictures I've seen have one, and the only .30-ish caliber it was available in was .32-20, a much smaller round. The .30-30 is actually pretty uncommon in the early Winchester lever actions, appearing only in the 1894 variants until the Model 55 came out in 1924. scot 14:10, 6 June 2006 (UTC):Information on Marlin and Winchester lever action rifles is taken from the Blue Book of Gun Values, S. P. Fjestad, 13th Edition. Current edition available from Blue Book Publications, Inc. scot 15:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)