Winchester model 94 date of manufacture serial numbers#
Winchester model 94 date of manufacture series#

375 by Craig Boddington.Ĥ-1980 American Rifleman has a Dope Bag test of the Marlin 375 rifle. 375 Winchester in the M-336.Ģ-1980 Guns and Ammo has the announcement of the Ruger No. I believe the same issue of the Rifleman announces the Williams reciever sight and side mount scope base for the top eject Big Bore.ġ-1980 Shooting Times has the announcement of Marlin Chambering the. 375 Winchester.Ħ-79 American Rifleman has the announcement of the Hornady 220 grain. 375.ġ979 Gun Digest has the announcement of the cartridge in Gun Digest by Ken Waters.ġ-79 Handloader has Ken Waters first Pet Loads article on the. 375 Big Bore rifle.ġ1- 1978 American Rifleman has a Model Variation announcement of the Savage Model 99 in. Retail price of the rifle is listed as $199.95 with ammo listed t $11.10.ġ-1979 American Rifleman has a Dope Bag review of the. They say it will be available in September 1978.

Winchester model 94 date of manufacture serial numbers#

No serial numbers mentioned by the authors.Ĩ-1978 American Rifleman give the first announcement of the. Here are some early articles on the Big Bore rifles. I am looking for a picture of a Mark Twain Commemorative. Why make three short runs prior to regular production? I understand that Marlin sometimes tests the water by announcing a new product prior to putting it into production to see how the advance orders stack up.

Winchester model 94 date of manufacture series#

With these rifles serialed in the regular Model 94 series we may never know many details on the quantity of each short run. I got all of this from a phone call to Winchester. Regular production is supposed to start in July. Then the third batch was released into the U.S. 25-35's Winchester seems to have made three pre-production batches. Was anything of this type offered with the. Has anyone else seen one of these cartridge pouches? This one is s/n BBoo1822. 375 with a leather cartridge pouch over the butt stock. I have a picture from an auction site of a top eject Big Bore in. I wonder how many were made each year? When a manufactuere tools up to make a rifle in a new caliber I wonder how much material and labor they risk? Your two rifles are pretty early production. RSY and Marlin thanks for the information. Monte Carlo Stock was available only in 1983.Īngle Eject serial numbers started: AE 1001 to AE 19000.Īfter 1984 Big Bore rifles serial numbered with the other Model 94's. I have looked at these four 'truths' pretty closely and believe they are true.

Adding just a bit more information from various threads around this Forum. Whoever was trying to develop the data base - how are you coming with that? I would like to hear about an angle eject that is a post AE prefix low stock pre-safety with a lower serial than mine. If you feel better giving just the first three s/n's thats fine, it gets us close to the series. I think this rifle is pretty early in the low stock - pre-safety group but have no way to prove it. 307 is a pre-safety low stock model, its s/n is 5588015.

I would like to know the approximate s/n range where the monte carlo stock stopped. These are all top eject low comb stocks.Īn unusual configuration that has been reported but I have not seen pictures to verify is a angle eject s/n AE16XXX that is not drilled and tapped for a scope mount. I have encountered BB016725, BB020698, BB035884, BB041567, BB043XXX at various auctions and in various postings. Was this Robert Anderson?Īny way, my top eject 375 is s/n BB 040141 just to start things off! Somwhere on this forum there is a thread by someone who was trying to start a data base of known Big Bore serial numbers and configuration. Timber, I hijacked your post to start this off.