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vigillinus
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.405 High Wall
      #6854 - 12/01/04 06:48 PM

Davidsons has got a run of 125 1885 Browning/Winchesters in .405, 28" octagon, checkered stocks, but stupidly with rifle style crescent buttplates instead of shotgun style. Too bad.

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RLI
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: vigillinus]
      #6855 - 12/01/04 09:01 PM

The 1885 in .405 Win. would be a great rifle but I agree the cresent buttplate is no good but still I would like to get one and modify the stock. I noticed Ruger have advertised the No. 1 in .405 Win. and Winchester has another run of the 1895 in .405 Win.. I haven't heard of any other rifles in this calibre. Thanks

RLI

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vigillinus
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: RLI]
      #6889 - 13/01/04 02:31 PM

I have an original 95 in .405 with shotgun butt and it kicks pretty hard, lots of drop in the stock, I can imagine what the crescent butt would be like, ouch.

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Zapata
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: vigillinus]
      #7147 - 20/01/04 02:38 PM

Hey, Y'all
I'm a new guy to this site, but what with this forum for single-shots, and another for big bores and doubles, it looks like heaven to me-----
I have a pair of early '95s, one in 30-03 that will stick 5 rounds of 30-06 Lake City Match in 2" at 100 yards with it's original #21 Lyman receiver sight, and the other in .405, also with the #21 Lyman which shoots about the same, if you don't let it intimidate you. Both these firearms are the full rifle style with the heavier, straight taper barrels, instead of the wimpy, too-light jump-down barrels that Browning, and now Winchester, is using. Both these guns had the crescent butplates when I acquired them, and although the .30 has virtually no recoil due to the heavy-for-caliber barrel ('bout like shooting a .410), it only took one round of original 300-gr. solid Winchester ammo out of the .405 to show me that "sumpin's gotta get differnt!!!". So I ordered two of the stocks that Browning was then using on their re-pop 30-40 and 30-06 '95s, at a damned-reasonable price as I remember. These used a nearly flat steel buttplate, which I replaced, after making the buttplate surface perfectly flat, with a nice red English style leather faced 3/8" shotgun type pad. The stocks slipped right on the old Winchesters, without any alterations to the inletting, and the wood-to-metal fit came out nearly perfect. This one relatively inexpensive fix went MILES in taming this hard-kicking rifle. I of course saved the crescent stocks, for the very unlikely chance that I might someday have to put this pair of guns up for sale.
I'm relatively certain that Winchester would gladly sell a person one of the stocks they are now using on their re-pop '95s, and since the same people that made the Brownings is now building the Winnies, I'm pretty certain it would fit the old guns just as well as mine did.

"When in doubt, use more gun!!!!!"

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Holmes
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: Zapata]
      #7159 - 20/01/04 05:06 PM

Hey Zapata,

Welcome to the forum. Its definitely your kind of place!

You've described some fine longarms and the stock changes you have implemented reflect the needs of an avid rifleman.

I have but one question.... NO FREEKIN' PICS???

Come on, man. Break out the digital and treat us to some visuals. Ya got me droolin'...

Welcome aboard, Zapata. Enjoy!

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mehulkamdar
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: vigillinus]
      #7177 - 21/01/04 01:04 AM

I guess this isn't the right forum for this, but the old British masters made some beautiful double rifles in .405 Winchester. I wonder if anyone has one and if they do, would they please post pctures here?

Thanks and good hunting!

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mickey
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: Zapata]
      #7205 - 21/01/04 10:31 AM

Zapata

What a timely post. Yesterday I picked up a 405, Mod 95 takedown. It has the crescent buttplate and after shooting it twice I decided I needed something different also.

Who did you contact at Winchester to get the Butt stock? Can you get a forend to match also?

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DPhillips
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: mickey]
      #7213 - 21/01/04 01:52 PM

I think I seen a few of the newer stocks for the 95's offered at cape outfitters website. Or someone's website like that.

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mickey
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: DPhillips]
      #7216 - 21/01/04 02:34 PM

There out of business. Thanks anyway.


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Zapata
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: mickey]
      #7294 - 23/01/04 09:20 AM

Hey, Y'all,
You'll probably want to stay away from the forearm wood that's used on the newbies, because their stylized schnabel doesn't bear the least resemblance to the original wood. The schnabel on the originals was almost a ball, rather than a schnabel hump, and bore a triangular inlay (some horn, some ebony) in the very end of the forearm. The new forearm looks grossly "oriental", for my taste.

When I get a little more "computer literate" I'd be proud to post some pictures of some of my old junk, if anyone would be interested. But I gotta forewarn ya, my tastes run a little on the traditional side (no plastic-stainless space-guns for this ole cowboy, but everyone to their own). To me a firearm is as much a work of art in metal and wood as a tool to go boom, especially when we're talkin' single-shots. To me, the best thing that's happened in the world of guns in the last fifty years is the Ruger #1.

By the way, I'm lusting after a #1 in .300 H&H (good ole .30 Super), so if anyone runs across one for sale or trade, please let me know. My e-mail address is for publication, and is---wcrushton@yahoo.com-----and Thanks in advance!!!

"When in doubt, use more gun!!!"

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RLI
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: mehulkamdar]
      #18795 - 02/09/04 07:45 PM

I know of a Manton Double in .405Win. in Melbourne which came out of India years ago and is for sale I will see how much it is and get the price for you. I have a Winchester 1895 and a Ruger No.1 in .405Win and I am very happy with this cartridge.

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atkinson6
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: RLI]
      #19304 - 19/09/04 09:23 AM

Jeff Mayfield, formerly of Cape Outfitters now has the same goods under the name of jeff's Outfitters..www.jeffsoutfitters.com 573-651-3200

In fact I understand the Cape Outfitters may be coming back in a short time...but at any rate Jeff has all the same stuff for sale..

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BFaucett
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Re: .405 High Wall [Re: atkinson6]
      #19355 - 22/09/04 09:14 AM

jeffsoutfitters Win 1895 stocks

Winchester M95 stock (reproduction)
Manufactured in the USA, it is fully finished with the traditional Winchester oil finish. Butt is cut for crescent butt plate (butt plate not included)

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