If you go to "armscollectors.com" site and put in the serial number it will show date of manufacture is 1903! GLWS.
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Winchester 94
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Serial numbers can have a digit lightly struck (worn die + curved receiver surface), altered, as when polishing for reblue, or etc, receivers can be re-barreled with newer barrels (i.e.,Winchester carbines did not have ramp front sights in 1903), tang marking is not correct for 1903, etc.
Renneberg, 2nd ed., p.31, "In the early '20's, the tang marking had the "18" omitted from the "1894" and the Model 1894 was now re-designated as the Model 94."
Your bbl is marked Model 94, and markings are Type 7 (p.139), as found with receivers in the 1,080,000 to 1,250,000 range.
Your tang marking is the type 7, (p. 125) found in SN ranges of "approximately 1,150,000 to 1,300,000", whereas a 1903-built receiver would have Type 1 markings, which included the words "Model 1894."
P. 56 "At serials around the 1,100,000 range, the post front sight on all full-magazine carbines was changed to the contemporary 'ramp with hood' style" as yours has.
Could there be a missing or lightly-struck "1" at the start of your SN? In addition, many other features such as print font/size, buttplate style, type magazine plug, other marking locations, etc make it easy to tell the true era of
production and correctness of parts to the gun in question, with a little research.
In any case, it is NOT an "all original 1903 Winchester." Luckily, true collectors who actually KNOW these rifles
can spot this stuff a mile away and won't over-pay. Novices, on the other hand, might make an expensive mistake...
GLWS!
Renneberg, 2nd ed., p.31, "In the early '20's, the tang marking had the "18" omitted from the "1894" and the Model 1894 was now re-designated as the Model 94."
Your bbl is marked Model 94, and markings are Type 7 (p.139), as found with receivers in the 1,080,000 to 1,250,000 range.
Your tang marking is the type 7, (p. 125) found in SN ranges of "approximately 1,150,000 to 1,300,000", whereas a 1903-built receiver would have Type 1 markings, which included the words "Model 1894."
P. 56 "At serials around the 1,100,000 range, the post front sight on all full-magazine carbines was changed to the contemporary 'ramp with hood' style" as yours has.
Could there be a missing or lightly-struck "1" at the start of your SN? In addition, many other features such as print font/size, buttplate style, type magazine plug, other marking locations, etc make it easy to tell the true era of
production and correctness of parts to the gun in question, with a little research.
In any case, it is NOT an "all original 1903 Winchester." Luckily, true collectors who actually KNOW these rifles
can spot this stuff a mile away and won't over-pay. Novices, on the other hand, might make an expensive mistake...
GLWS!
I'm sorry you can't afford this rifle BTW it is against the rules to write anything neg. in anyone's thread.
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