I turn to Jerry for a lot of gunsmithing chores, and for the next several months I kept him busy with more pressing projects. I turned to my local gunsmith, Jerry Dove at Dove’s Custom Guns, and asked him to sort the rifle out. Of course, I had to get the rifle fixed-even the most accurate rifle in the world is worthless if it doesn’t work. Ultimately, I decided on a Williams red fiber-optic front sight and even managed a few on-target groups at 200 yards that I’ll not describe for fear of being labeled a charlatan. Still, for hunting deer, bear and boar in my home state of West Virginia, 2.5-inch groups at 100 yards with open sights is more than sufficient. 307 Winchester, I could do a bit better, but back then I had a low-power variable riflescope attached. I installed set of XS aperture rear and post front sights and found that at 100 yards, I could use the Hornady ammunition to shoot groups measuring less than 2.5 inches.
Though it’s nowhere near as powerful as the. 30-30 Winchester (left) is the cartridge that made the Winchester 94 famous. 307 Winchester LEVERevolution load with a 160-grain bullet at an advertised 2,650 fps. One of the reasons my interest in the cartridge/rifle had been renewed was because Hornady had just released a new.
That, of course, didn’t stop me from shooting the rifle. I purchased the rifle based on photographs to only later learn the shell catch was defective it didn’t want to let the last round out of the magazine feed into the action. I also found a used Winchester 94AE Big Bore in. Not too long ago, I found myself with a little extra cash. 308 Winchester, but the rest of the cartridge case was dimensionally identical as was the CUP pressure limit of 52,000. 307 Winchester had a slightly larger rim than the. 38-55 Winchester, with a slightly longer case that was loaded to a CUP pressure of 52,000 as opposed to 30,000.
375 Winchester was, for all practical purposes, a modernized version of the old. It was even loaded to the same CUP pressure of 52,000 as the. 358 Winchester with a 0.506 rim diameter, as opposed to 0.473. These rifles were offered in three chamberings: the. And second, because the Big Bore (BB) designation meant that the rifle could handle higher-pressure cartridges than the old. First, because the AE designation meant that, unlike previous 1894 Winchesters, a riflescope could be mounted directly over the action. It was a good trade the dog turned out to be the best coonhound I’ve ever hunted with, but I’ve missed that rifle ever since. 307 Winchester takes the lever gun into a new realm of ballistic performance. With the ability to push a bullet like the Speer Hot Core Flat Point to 2,700 fps, the. We traded some cash and my Winchester for that dog. My best friend and I were desperate for a really good coonhound, and he managed to locate a direct descendant of the notorious Grand Night Champion Hickory Hunt Harry. In fact, the first hunt I ever went on was a raccoon hunt, and the first animal I ever killed was a raccoon. I was raised around hounds in a coon-hunting family. Unfortunately, while I was a die-hard deer hunter, I was also a seriously dedicated coon hunter. I used it to take several deer, and if my memory serves, I don’t think I ever missed a deer with that rifle. For deer hunting in the hills of West Virginia, I felt there could be nothing better. My fondness was due to its svelte handling qualities lever-actions are known for, combined with its. This was a rifle I dearly wanted, and I considered it a graduation present to myself. Up until that time, my parents, grandfather or best friend had to facilitate my weapons cache. In 1983, I made my first legal over-the-counter long-gun purchase: It was a Winchester 1894 AE (Angle Eject) Big Bore lever-action rifle chambered for the. Share on LinkedIn Updated with some modern amenities, the Winchester 94AE still proves an all-time classic field lever-gun.
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