Oregon Prison 97's and 94's

[scosgt]

After the end of WWI Winchester still had some M1917 bayonets on hand. They were sold with guns or on their own. They are marked with the circle W and no date or military markings.
When they ran out of these leftover units from WWI, they had a stock of the 1895 Russian Musket bayonets on hand (as I recall, the order for the muskets was cancelled in the chaos of the Russian Revolution).
Rather than re-starting the bayonet line, they made the cut in the adapters and sold the musket bayonet with the gun.
They can be rather hard to find.

[hyrax222]

Plastic butt-plate. Yes bayonet lug looks like that.

[hyrax222]

I will have to check for marks on lug...

[hyrax222]

No rack no.

[SPEEDGUNNER]

So we have guns in the same serial range showing up in quantity on both the east and west coasts. So Winchester obviously made more than a few of these. Wouldn't it be interesting to get the factory order information, to see who were the buyers?

[scosgt]

They are pretty rare and some folks simply do not believe the brass buttplates.
Too bad for them.

[hyrax222]

I have been seeking a brass buttplate for years. Never found one...