Need help building my pre 64 win 94

Parts are expensive if you buy them one by one. I like your idea of just buying a beater parts gun for a few hundred dollars.
 
You'll occasionally run across parts bundles at auctions. I've seen parts come up a few times at Switzers, but never really paid much attention to them. Like others have mentioned, rounding up all the little bits piecemeal will get expensive, just from a shipping standpoint. Keep in mind parts have to be pre- '64 specific, post- '64 parts won't fit.
 
It’s not sentimental, just something I’d like to do, except for those numbers stamped on the barrel and receiver, it looks brand new.
Not sure what’s up with all the holes in the side though .
I’ll keep my eye open for complete parts rifle
 
The gun was striped of parts, I would be curious as to why. The barrel or receiver may have some damage that was considered too great to repair.
 
There would have been two holes for an aperture sight, not four.
Those stamped numbers have nothing to do with anything factory.
The rifle got broken for parts. There was probably a reason to do this rather than keep it as a rifle. Inspect the thing very very carefully before proceeding.
I saw the ad for the barreled receiver. I have many of the parts from a pre '64. No wood. Even starting with the parts I have (bolt, lock, lower tang, hammer, etc.) I thought the completed cost would be more than it would be worth.
 
THOSE are proof marks.

"K" from Browning is wildly incorrect. The 303 marking looks like perhaps some kind of rack number or misguided attempt at chamber marking - was this poor thing bored out to .303 British? The great dirty holes in the side of the receiver are for mounting a receiver sight, and then perhaps either screwing up the first attempt or mounting a different receiver sight with different spacing, or perhaps moving the one he mounted first a little forward or a little back... Do any of the holes drilled in the sidewall line up with the track of the locking bolt?
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
THOSE are proof marks.

"K" from Browning is wildly incorrect. The 303 marking looks like perhaps some kind of rack number or misguided attempt at chamber marking - was this poor thing bored out to .303 British? The great dirty holes in the side of the receiver are for mounting a receiver sight, and then perhaps either screwing up the first attempt or mounting a different receiver sight with different spacing, or perhaps moving the one he mounted first a little forward or a little back... Do any of the holes drilled in the sidewall line up with the track of the locking bolt?
Click to expand...
Not quite sure DanView attachment 705702View attachment 705701View attachment 705700
 
The front hole is where the plug screw goes that keeps the bolt/lever connecting pin in place.
The others are where a side mounted peep sight would go.
 
45C said:
Not quite sure Dan View attachment 705701
Click to expand...

I was playing a hunch there, brother. :)

Forgive me if you know this stuff already. See that vertical groove up through the receiver aft of the last hole on the left? That's the track through which the bolt rises to lock (or falls to unlock) the action against firing pressure. It's kinda sacred. Holes in that neighbourhood are flirting with disaster. Note how the rearmost hole leaves very little material at the front of the groove.

In an effort to figure out why on Earth someone would drill two sets of mounting holes for a receiver sight, I wondered if Sparky the Wonderbubba had actually punched a hole into that track and then felt the need to shift the sight forward when the mounting screw for his receiver sight impeded the travel of the locking bolt. Looks like that's very much not the case. There are others here who know a hell of a lot more than I do about this sort of thing, but making a hole on, in, or around the parts of the gun that keep the pressure in seems super unwise.

Gonna chalk this one up as a Mystery of the Ancients. God knows why people do sh!t like this. People are funny.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
I was playing a hunch there, brother. :)

Forgive me if you know this stuff already. See that vertical groove up through the receiver aft of the last hole on the left? That's the track through which the bolt rises to lock (or falls to unlock) the action against firing pressure. It's kinda sacred. Holes in that neighbourhood are flirting with disaster. Note how the rearmost hole leaves very little material at the front of the groove.

In an effort to figure out why on Earth someone would drill two sets of mounting holes for a receiver sight, I wondered if Sparky the Wonderbubba had actually punched a hole into that track and then felt the need to shift the sight forward when the mounting screw for his receiver sight impeded the travel of the locking bolt. Looks like that's very much not the case. There are others here who know a hell of a lot more than I do about this sort of thing, but making a hole on, in, or around the parts of the gun that keep the pressure in seems super unwise.

Gonna chalk this one up as a Mystery of the Ancients. God knows why people do sh!t like this. People are funny.
Click to expand...

No worries on those holes Dan as they be ahead of the locking lug. All the thrust from firing is to the rear of the action. Them holes can be filled using a Mig or Tig welder and then worked flush to the receiver before final finishing & blueing.
 
Last edited:
I would like to find a stock, gonna be difficult though, I think an original used pre 64 stock would be a lot less work ?
 
SHELL SHUCKER said:
No worries on those holes Dan as they be ahead of the locking lug. All the thrust from firing is to the rear of the action. Them holes can be filled using a Mig or Tig welder and then worked flush to the receiver before final finishing & blueing.
Click to expand...
I don’t really want to mess with the bluing on the barrel and receiver, as it’s in perfect/almost new condition.
I was surprised how good the bluing was for a 50s. Odd

I guess it’s either filler screws or weld and reblue the receiver.

I’ll re rebluing everything else, as I got some Dicropan and am curious how it turns out
 
I would avoid any welding to plug those holes. No idea what heat treatment is used in the 94 receiver, but welding is going to alter whatever heat treatment there is in the area. Use plug screws, install a receiver sight to cover things up.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom