"Road King" said
Just curious Bert, but in your survey have you any recorded from the Great White North (Canada). In over 45 years of collecting and gun dealing I don’t ever recall seeing any of these up here.

None that I am aware of. It appears that many of them ended up on the west coast of the U.S.

Bert

Mike Hunter said
I believe the 95 was offered in catalogues until 33 or 34, so 5-6 years after the 95 parts “clean-up”.

Also keep in mind that Winchester should have kept parts on hand as spares, for both international and domestic sales. I imagine you could have gotten a replacement 95 barrel from Winchester as late as the 50s or 60s.

What I also find interesting is that there are 3 variants found so far: 20 inch using Model 95 carbine barrels, 20” barrels using Model 95 sporting rifle barrels and 22” barrels using Model 95 NRA musket barrels.

Can you imagine taking your 94 carbine to a Winchester repair center and telling them you want a replacement barrel just like the one that’s on it? Or asking a dealer to get you a 94 just like your buddy’s, with that cool barrel.

Mike,

The Model 95 was offered in the catalogs until 1935 just like the Model 86 (which was also discontinued in 1928). Winchester routinely listed many different models for years after they had been discontinued. I agree with you that they would have needed to keep some barrels on hand for return/repair work, but that does not mean that they did not have an excess of them on hand in 1928, and decided to use them elsewhere.

There are actually four known variants of the M94/95 hybrids. There are 22" (actually 21.75") barrels with pinned blade front sights, and some with a dovetail cut in the ramp. The same thing for the 20" barrels.

Bert

twobit said
Bert wrote:

I have (50) of them documented thus far, all of them in the 1014894 – 1035596 serial number range.

That is from Model 94 production during 1928 and concurrent with ongoing Model 95 production. If Winchester continued to manufacture another 2,102 Model 95’s over the next 5 years there were no "left over" barrels at that time since some of them were still being used.

Michael

Michael,

I believe that you might need to think out side of the box a bit.

What we do know, is that production of the Model 95 came to a virtual stand still in June of 1928, with no production from June 23rd through December 28th (there was a small batch that went through the PR on the 29th of December).

What we do not know, is how many .30 caliber Model 95 barrels Winchester had stockpiled in their inventory at the time the plug was pulled on the Model 95.

Winchester’s habit was to manufacture the many and various production parts in batches, particularly the barrels, and at some point in early 1928, they undoubtedly had stockpiled a fair number of .30 caliber barrels. We do not know how many .30 caliber barrels they still had on hand in June of 1928 when they decided to pull the plug on the Model 95… for all we know, it may have been 5+ thousand.

We also do not know how many of the final 2,102 Model 95s manaufactured were .30 caliber. My guess (based on what I have observed) is that a high percentage of the late production rifles were .405s and the other calibers. So, and for arguments sake, let us assume that approximately 50% of the 2,102 were something other than .30 caliber. The other 50% (roughly 1,000) could very easliy have been assembled using the inventory from 1928.

Bert

waterman said
At what point did Winchester make the decision to stop manufacturing the 95 in .30-06? And does that decision have anything to do with the appearance of 95 barrels on 94s?

Good question, and it also applies to the 30-03.

Bert