Also interesting how manufacturing has changed. I have often noticed that Winchester was not overly concerned about the "Just in time" method that we religiously adopted from the Japanese about 20 years ago. The automotive parts plant I worked for would not store parts for more than a week , and on the progressive dies that produced a right hand and left hand part being run when they had orders for only the right hand part that week, they would scrap the left hand parts rather than store them. What often happened if the die smashed, and they could not run the then needed left hand parts the next week, panic ensued and lots of overtime to ship the parts or face the contract late penalty imposed by car manufactures with assembly lines stopped.Often also involved expensive shipping parts by air , even at the expense of renting a plane Modern times eh?
Perhaps a sensible competitive solution would be a compromise between these 2 extremes ?

That is a super old 94, Larry. Half round and full mag is a fairly uncommon combo. I have read that unless a customer specified a full magazine if they ordered a half round barrel they got a button magazine with it. That doesn’t really ring true with me as a full magazine was standard configuration so why would the factory deviate from standard unless requested? Either way your .38/55 is in awesome condition, couldn’t have spent much time in the woods.