Bill - that's interesting about your experience with High Walls in .30 US. The .30 US was fairly low production in the High Wall. About 1000 made if I recall. High Walls strongly tended to have long barrels, as you have observed. If a buyer had wanted one with a shorter barrel, Winchester would have surely made them one. I've seen plenty of Winchester lever rifles of that era that were ordered with short barrels. I know they made a very small number of Low Walls with carbine length barrels (e.g. 15 or 20 inch) but as I think about it, I have almost never seen a High Wall ordered with a short barrel. I agree with you, I would not be choosing a High Wall to carry in the woods either. I suppose the woods hunter wanted a repeater anyway so the High Wall was already in disfavor? Interesting question.
