Picked this up today.
Marked as an 1893, but I believe it's really an 1894.
Date puts it somewhere between 1906 and 1912.
It's in 30-30 and the barrel is marked Special Smokeless Steel.
Somewhere during it's life, it's had the stock modified with the Marlin buttcap.
It's really strange s I really like it!

Anyway, A crappy photo.

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
Marked as an 1893, but I believe it's really an 1894.

What makes you say it's really an 1894?

The 1893 was chambered in rifle cartridges, including .30-30.

The 1894 has a shorter action and was only chambered in pistol cartridges and some shorter intermediate cartridges like .25-20 or .38-40. It was not offered in .30-30.

AH! I was hoping someone would know!
So it IS an 1893!
I REALLY want to get a tang peep sight for it.

If you don't want to wait to hopefully find an original like a Lyman No. 1 JA sight, you can get a modern production tang sight for the 1893 from MVA:

https://montanavintagearms.com/sights/

YES! they have the little peep sight!

Here's an article I found from G&A.
https://www.gunsandammo.com/ed...n-1893-tested/549518