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| Above, my 1962 Winchester 94 .30-30 cal. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Google is acting up. This started yesterday. I generally have it set for the last 24 hours on different subjects but it is not limiting itself to that range.
But it did come up with something of interest to me that was posted in 2010 by NRA Museums. It is on the history of the Winchester 1894 (or Winchester 94).
It is an interesting article, especially for those of us who are fans of the firearm.
It begins with:
Winchester's first smokeless powder lever-action rifle, the Model 1894 Rifle is by far the company's most successful centerfire rifle. This John Browning-designed firearm is still in production, and over five million have been manufactured. Originally priced at $17.50, Model 1894s available today sell for several hundred dollars. As with other Winchester lever-actions, the Model 1894 is available in rifle, carbine, trapper's model carbine, takedown, and extra-lightweight versions. This example was manufactured in 1925.
John Moses Browning (1855 - 1926) was a true genius of mechanical design. The son of a Mormon gunsmith, he began working full-time in that profession at age 15. His 1878 design for a single-shot metallic cartridge rifle resulted in the first of many patents that he would receive during his lifetime. In partnership with five of his brothers, Browning later opened a machine shop in Ogden, Utah, but the firm's output of three guns per day could not keep up with demand for his products. One of his rifles was purchased by a representative of Winchester Repeating Arms Company and shipped to Thomas G. Bennett, the firm's General Manager, who purchased the patent rights for $8,000 and hired the Browning brothers as Winchester "jobbers".
To read more, go here.
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