Lots of steel and wood. It's just made the old fashioned way. Lots of durable steel parts that feel solid and reliable. Incredible design. John Moses Browning really outdid himself when he designed the Model The mechanism is smooth and precise. The ergonomics are practically perfect. The action is strong and simply not prone to wearing out.
Solid lockup. The John Browning design was created to handle the newest type of ammunition in the world at the time: smokeless powder loads. And it is still handling them. The Model 94 has been chambered in some of the meanest calibers ever developed for fast action in brushy conditions. It's a lifetime gun. Some rifles come and go, but a Model 94 just builds a lifetime of memories.
It is one gun that your family will appreciate long after you are gone. It's a gun your great grandson will learn to shoot with. Today's we have the ability to make great barrels for every Winchester no matter what the action type.
This means the 94 is more accurate than ever. And there are more bullet choices too. And factory ammo is a lot more affordable than some other calibers, making it something you can afford to shoot.
It' may seem like the opposite of today's MSR, but lever actions have a lot in common with today's modern sporting rifles. They were plentiful, and they could pass for any lever gun from the mid-to-late s. The Model was more common and produced in far greater numbers than similar firearms and was consequently far easier for pretty much anyone to get, which is why it remained a popular and affordable hunting rifle for decades, along with its reputation for utter reliability.
Though Winchester updated the design sometimes controversially over the decades, American production of the Model continued uninterrupted until Decades after its lever-action technology was eclipsed, the Model was still the gun of choice for Theodore Roosevelt when shooting suppressed in the yard at Sagamore Hill.
Decades after that, it was still being carried afield by countless hunters. Logan Metesh is a historian with a focus on firearms history and development. His ability to present history and research in an engaging manner has made him a sought-after consultant, writer, and museum professional. Follow T. Logan Metesh: Facebook Twitter Instagram.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer Search. Google Patents. Bearing serial number , this Model was made on Oct.
There will be plenty of rifles just like it in use across America. Although a mechanical genius, Browning was not clairvoyant. Or that after World War II, telescopic sights would dominate. This limitation remained in effect clear until , when Hornady solved the problem with the flexible polymer tip on the Flex Tip Expanding FTX bullet, for the first time allowing an aerodynamic bullet to be used in a tubular magazine.
Neither solution was ideal, so most of us continued to use our 94s with iron sights. Today, all 94s eject to the right at an angle, allowing conventional scope mounting. Most recent 94 variants not all are drilled and tapped for scope mounts. To this day I have never mounted a scope on a Most are. Two 94s, for only, commemorate this th milestone: th Anniversary High Grade and th Anniversary Custom Grade.
I had a chance to examine both at the recent NRA convention and both are gorgeous — fine wood, good checkering and very special embellishment. For this article and after much cajoling , we were able to borrow a High Grade to do some shooting and photography. As the photos show, Winchester did an awesome job on this rifle. The Custom Grade is, well, just a bit more. Give a Gift Subscriber Services. See All Other Magazines.
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