The quick twist and slightly rough bore of my 1894 created some interesting problems with lighter bullets. 25-35’s have 1:10 twists, plenty for any. In the early days of smokeless powder many barrels had faster rifling twists, but within a couple of decades many high-velocity sporting cartridges used slow twists, considered more accurate with the bullets of the day. Winchester’s original rifling twist was 1 turn in 8 inches (1:8), fitting right in with today’s hot trends. 25-35 always had a reputation for accuracy. This is very good for the bore and the sights, but apparently the.
Three-shot groups with the Winchester factory load average under an inch at 50, and on the two occasions I’ve tried them at 100, measured around 2 inches. I can shoot irons pretty well, but normally do most range testing of open sights at 50 yards.
catalog lists the Beach sight at a dollar extra, and the express sight $1.50. Both were probably factory options: My Castle Books facsimile of the 1916 Winchester Repeating Arms Co. The sights are a Winchester 3-leaf “express,” and a Beach flip-over front with both a low ivory bead and a globe with a taller pin. From my 1894 the 117-grain Winchester factory load averages around 2,150 fps, and also shoots pretty well, despite the dark bore common in smokeless rifles made before the 1920s, thanks to corrosive primers. 25-35 was made in 1898, a Winchester Model 1894 with a 26-inch octagon barrel, purchased off the used rack at Capital Sports & Western Wear in Helena, Montana, shortly before the announcement of the new Model 94’s. Of course, exact velocity depends on barrel length. With FTX ammo sighted-in 2 inches high at 100, a scoped 94 allows aiming in the middle of a deer’s ribs out to 250 yards, where the bullet lands about 3 inches low, while the 117 roundnose is about 4 inches low at 200. The FTX’s soft-synthetic spitzer tip prevents primers from being ignited in the tube magazine during recoil, and the increased ballistic coefficient and muzzle velocity flattens trajectory. 25-35, a good thing since Winchester’s is just about “unobtanium.” I used Winchester in the handloads because of stocking up after buying my 1894.)
(Hornady also offers their excellent brass in. Since then at least seven variations have appeared, selling well enough to result in another factory load, Hornady’s LEVERevolution 110-grain FTX at a listed 2,425 fps-almost exactly the velocity of my 110 FTX handloads using 27.9 grains of LEVERevolution powder, the maximum charge listed in Hornady’s manual. 25-35 was revived in 2005 in the scope-friendly, Angle Eject version introduced in 1983. Published muzzle velocity reached its peak at 2,300 fps in the early 1970s, when most factory ammunition was still tested in 26-inch barrels, but is now 2,230. Winchester ammunition has been continuously available since 1895, though since around World War II the only load has been the 117-grain roundnose softpoint. The 1954 Gun Digest was the last edition listing Winchester lever actions chambered in.
WINCHESTER MODEL 25 VALUE FULL
Original factory ammo featured 117-grain softpoint and full metal jacket bullets at a listed 1,960 feet per second, but a 1925 “Super Speed” load with an 87-grain bullet supposedly got 2,700 fps-pretty close to the. 25-35 apparently hung right in there until the 1920s, when higher velocity bolt-action cartridges took over the “smallbore” market. 30-30 became one of the most popular hunting rounds of all time, but the. The rimmed case made it a natural for single-shots, including Winchester’s Model 1885, and a number of European kipplaufs and drillings, under its metric name of 6.5x52R. Both cartridges also appeared in later variations of the 94 (Winchester shortened the year-designation in 1919) called the Model 55 and 64, along with other manufacturer’s lever-actions. 25-35 Winchester Center Fire (WCF) was introduced in 1895 in the Model 1894 Winchester lever-action, along with the.
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