Winchester 1894 In IMFDB

Above, a Winchester Model 1894 Saddle Ring Carbine. IMFDB photo.

Yesterday, I was alerted about a new (not sure how new) page for the Winchester 1894 (a.k.a. Winchester 94) rifle by the Internet Movie Firearms Database (IMFDB).

In it, it provides information on different variations of the rifle and a listing of what movies it appeared in over the years. 

The page's summary is as follows: 

The Winchester Model 1894 is a lever-action rifle developed by the famed John Moses Browning, as a follow-on to his previous Model 1892 design; it uses many of the same parts as that rifle, and could be made with few alterations to its production tooling, notably having a nearly identically-sized receiver that could be made with the same rough blanks. Despite this, it was designed to use larger, more powerful cartridges (ballistically comparable to modern intermediates, though many were sized more comparably to full-powered rounds), including the .38-55, .32-40, and the famed .30-30 WCF; to permit the cycling of these much longer cartridges in an action originally designed for pistol-caliber rounds, the Model 1894 uses a rather unique system wherein the entire bottom of the receiver hinges down when the action is cycled, granting a longer throw of the lever that permits a correspondingly-longer stroke of the bolt, allowing a much longer cartridge to be cycled in and out of the chamber.

Due to its re-use of the Model 1892's receiver size, the 1892 and 1894 can be somewhat difficult to distinguish at a glance; if the rifle isn't shown with its action open (as this allows the aforementioned pivoting receiver floor to be seen), the 1894's proportionally longer loading gate can be used for an ID, as can a pin at the bottom-front of the receiver (used to allow the receiver floor to pivot) that the 1892 lacks.

Interestingly, the Winchester 1894 appeared in such movies as 1941, Night of The Living Dead, Green Mile, The Untouchables and Brokeback Mountain.

To access the page, go here.