Winchester Model 94 - POLL

What is your interest in the Winchester Model 94?

  • I presently have one (or more) and will likely always have one

    Votes: 255 63.6%

  • I don't have one but have in the past had one (or more) and would like to and may acquire another

    Votes: 34 8.5%

  • I never had one but would like to or will at some point likely acquire one.

    Votes: 45 11.2%

  • I had one in the past and have no desire to have another.

    Votes: 42 10.5%

  • I never had one and have no desire to acquire one, in other words I could care less?

    Votes: 25 6.2%
  • Total voters
    401
Nice thread, nice poll, interesting results so far. Only 10% claim no interest in owning one, while about 65% have at least one and always will (like me)

These results surprise me. They indicate that this rifle is wildly popular. My ownership reasons are mostly sentimental and heritage based. What's yours?
 
Robert Nicholson said:
Nice thread, nice poll, interesting results so far. Only 10% claim no interest in owning one, while about 65% have at least one and always will (like me)

These results surprise me. They indicate that this rifle is wildly popular. My ownership reasons are mostly sentimental and heritage based. What's yours?
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Pretty much the same.
 
Took me a long.....long time to find the first gun I ever wanted since I was a kid, a 94 trapper in 30-30. No crossbolts, no angle eject.

The one day there it was sitting on the used rack, at considerable premium over a regular 94. It was worth every penny, that guns went with me everywhere it's so light.
 
I have owned many 94's, almost all pre 64's. Currently four I think. There will be one with me on a daily basis for four or five months of the year, much of that time will be under my leg in a scabbard strapped to my saddle.
 
I have had three. One was made in 1898, was the slickest of the bunch. One was made in the '50s, needed a bit of work, traded it on a CIL 830 that didn't need work (bad deal for me, but I was tired of sinking money into it, disclosed to buyer, we were both happy). The one I SHOULD have kept was an AE model from the 1980s. It was not as nice as the other two, but more practical with a scope.

I missed a Model 64 for $400 because I just didn't have the funds, and have been kicking myself ever since. I think that would have suited me perfectly, except for maybe the lack of scoping options: More accurate than the short barrels, and a pistol grip stock.

I've owned bolt, pump, and lever .30-30s, and I will always be a sucker for a Model 94 because of their light weight and pointability. Much better handling gun than the Marlins, which are too heavy. Only thing wrong with Model 94 is how clunky the action feels when you work it.
 
I have a 1949 94 30-30 and a '57 94 32 Spl., which I will own until the day I die. Had another '49 30-30 and a post '64 30-30, they now live in other homes. Had quite a few AE models, 307, 356 and 375.
 
I have owned a couple dozen Pre-64 94's over the years... and one Post-64 (never again)... other than a half dozen bigbore's that have come and gone.

I began the first three years of my deer hunting career with my grandfather's old Pre-64 .32 Special... I shot a dozen deer with that rifle and have many fond memories attached to the platform. Even now, 40 years later, I can close my eyes and remember the feel of the receiver steel and satisfying weight in my hand, and the compact swing as I mounted the rifle, and the sharp little buck of the steel plate against my shoulder, and the picture of a crumbling whitetail through the wispy smoke trickling from the muzzle.

I currently own two Pre-64 M94's, one is a 1953 .30/30 and the other is a 1960 .30/30... I mostly shoot them for fun with cast 165 RN's. I may draw one to shoot another deer or bear with again at some point, but considering the safe full of fine bolt action rifles, I may never again take a 94 into the field after game... but I can't picture myself without one... just picking it up and holding it and letting the memories wash over me, is more valuable to me than a few hundred bucks.
 
I've got three. A Cheyene carbine in 44/40 that I got in a trade about 25 years ago, a Canadian Centential 30-30 rifle length, and 30-30 carbine that used to to be my late father in laws.

Th first two got a lot of cast bullet shooting, and I"ve never got around the shooting the last one. I lost all interest in hunting with a 30-30 almost 4 decades ago, frankly don't think much of the design and have no hunting use for them. I can get my nostalgia fix by shooting the 94-22. Curiously the 22 strikes me as a quality gun instead of a bucket of bolts.
 
TheCoachZed said:
Only thing wrong with Model 94 is how clunky the action feels when you work it.
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The "kerr-chunck-a-clunk" is what I like best about them... after a few thousand rounds it just feels right... like you are accomplishing something good when you "work" the lever.
 
I have 3:

38-55 round barrel rifle in almost new condition from 1897.
32-40 rifle oct barrel Lyman tang sight VG condition from1900
38-55 SRC crescent butt short magazine well worn from 1907

Love all 3 and would hate to be without one. I still hunt with the carbine.
 
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