The Winchester Model 1895 is a walnut-stocked lever-action .30-06 Springfield built for timber and saddle hunting. It has an MSRP of $1,599.99. Its magazine is a non-detachable box set into the receiver instead of a tube under the barrel, so a lever gun can feed the pointed bullets .30-06 is loaded with.

It comes sighted, with a Marble Arms gold bead front and a buckhorn rear that adjusts, so the rifle can be shot the day it arrives. The blind magazine holds four rounds and loads from the top through the open action, so there is nothing to drop out and nothing to lose. The straight grip walnut stock has no adjustment and sets length of pull at 13.25 inches, and Winchester fits no sling swivel studs, so carrying it on a sling means drilling the wood.

If you're cross-shopping, the Winchester Model 70 Featherweight is the bolt rifle in the same chambering, has an MSRP of $1,369.99, weighs 7.00 lbs against the 1895's 8.0 lbs and comes drilled and tapped for a conventional scope. The Winchester Model 1886 Short Rifle is the other Winchester lever gun at the same money, chambered in .45-70 Government, and it trades the 1895's pointed-bullet reach for a heavier, slower bullet at woods range. The 1895's barrel is 24 inches, two inches longer than the Featherweight's, in a rifle that is three quarters of an inch shorter overall.