They can still be refinished by someone who is familiar with them and uses the right salts, or they can be very nicely powder coated, but you need to be aware of the potential problem. It worked great, but the problem is that if you ever wear through the iron or if it is polished off in a re-blueing process, you'll end up with a purplish colored blue either on the whole receiver, or more likely in a mottled blue and purple with blue where there is iron plating left and purple where it's gone. So Winchester, depending on the reports, a) plated the receivers with iron, or b) coated them with iron phosphate and then polished and blued the iron/iron phosphate. However for a period of time in the middle of that range, they used an alloy with higher amounts of chromium in it, and steels with high chrome content tend to blue with a purplish hue. It no doubt offends the purists but the engineering is sound and the sintered steel receivers are just as strong and the tolerances are just as tight as a forged and milled receiver. They switched back to a regular milled forged steel receiver in 1978 when they introduced the XTR rifles. Something else to consider is that Winchester switched to using a sintered steel forging process (powdered steel forged in die under heat and pressure) from 1964 to 1977. The cut out for the AE feature can be seen on the bottom rifle. Winchester changed to the Angle Eject in 1982, so if it's an AE it's post 1982 and if it's not an AE then it's pre-1982. The simple solution is also to note if it's an angle eject or not. I am also not aware of Win ever re-using the old serials with a suffix - they just kept cruising on past 5.1 million in 1982 and got to around 6 million by 1991.
44 Mag beginning in the late 1960s, so a 1969 serial number is reasonable. Thought you could use the help.The Model 94 was chambered in. I don't consider this little coaching session as stealing your thread because it is intended to help you and after all it is your thread. Paint is pretty easy to use but I'd say you ought to get some photo editing software. When I clicked on Stretch/Skew and it opened, I made the Horizontal and Verticl values 25% each. Right click on picture (BEFORE maximizing it by left clicking on it)Ĭhange Horizontal & Vertical to value wanted
Open any folder/file with a picture in it You can edit the size of your picture in "Paint"įirst move the picture from your film media (from you camera) to a file or folder. Un-check it to see the actual size of the pictures in your computer. If the "Enable Automatic Image Resizing" box is checked then your OS autimatically makes the image fit your screen no matter what size the picture. Both books are out of print but are readily available at The reason it looks normal in your computer is because you have "Automatic Image Resizing" turned on. Renneberg is a treasure trove of information on the Model 94 as is the book "Winchester's 30-30, Model 94 the Rifle America Loves" by Sam Fadala. You probably know but for those that don't, the book "The Winchester Model 94 the First 100 Years" by Robert C. What manufacture date do you have for Serial # 6525XXX? So please give Bledsoe a jingle and ask him to let you release the list. UNDERSTAND: I'm not irritated at YOU but the SITUATION. I find it just a little irritating that you can give out numbers and dates of production on a one-to-one basis but can't release the whole list. How about if you contact Bledsoe and ask him if you can release the list of dates he provided to you. When I got my first Top-Tang Safety Model 94, I researced info on it very heavily. Just passing some info on that I have first hand. I wasn't trying to be picky, obstinate, or critical when I told Joe about the Top-Tang Sagety date/year error. However, I personally don't much stock in that explanation. The only explanation that I can come up with that you were able to sell a Top-Tang Safety Model 94 in 2002 is that Winchester may have sold some in late 2002 much like Detroit starts selling say their 2008 modeld in the fall of 2007. The catalog even has one of those flags they use to draw the customers attention to an item that has "NEW" in it and the words Top-Tang Safety under it. They make a big production of the Top Tang Safety and speak at length about doing away with the Cross Bolt Safety in order to bring back the lines of the original Model 94. It is quite clear in that catalog that the Top Tang Safety was introduced in the Model 94 in 2003.
I also have the Winchester 2003 Catalog right in front of me. The Model 94s in that catalog are equipped with the Cross Bolt Safety only. Yes, I have the Winchester 2002 Catalog right in front of me.