Hello from Michigan. I picked up my 9th lever gun and my first Winchester over the weekend. Might have over paid at $450 but the gun is in great shape. I know Marlins but almost nothing about Winchesters. Cleaning is my first question, it seems more complex then a Marlin?

Great adventure anyway.

Welcome rocrider. Congratulations on your recent family member. Do not dissemble unless you have the dissemble/assemble schematic handy. I use a lightly oiled patch for the barrel and silicon cloth for the metal parts. Scratch X for the wood. Others have their own procedures.

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Welcome aboard. Not that hard to disassemble and reassemble but a manual is a good idea as Redryder states! Make a new thread in the appropriate sub-section so we can see this 1894 from 1955! I know I'd sure like to see her! At $450, if she is in great condition I don't think you did bad at all, and so long as you're happy is all that matters!

Yes sir. Welcome. If she attracted you buy her, she's a keeper. No worries about the price. We're not here to set what the market will bear. Just know that if not you, then someone would have taken her home.