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Hi there, I wanted to share a family heirloom and see if anyone might have any additional information. This model 94 was purchased new by my great great grandfather (born 1863) and has been passed down ever since. The original owner hunted socially, and then it was unused until my father took a deer as a kid with it. It’s a takedown in 25-35, and essentially a safe queen. It is missing the original front a sight, a relatively recent development from when I was a kid 40 years ago, but otherwise complete.
I’d really like to find a replacement front sight if anyone can point me in the right direction.
What is the serial number on you Winchester?
As a Guest on the WACA website, you can only post a URL to pictures that you have stored on a third-party host service. If you send your pictures directly to me, I can post them for you.
Bert (Admin) – [email protected]
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
Bert H. said
What is the serial number on you Winchester?As a Guest on the WACA website, you can only post a URL to pictures that you have stored on a third-party host service. If you send your pictures directly to me, I can post them for you.
Bert (Admin) – [email protected]
Thanks Bert – it looks like my pictures are in the post. SN is 19317x
Beautiful gun. I’d try Ben Tolson on this group (screen name just Ben I think???) once you identify the “correct” sight.
orophile said
Bert H. said
What is the serial number on you Winchester?
As a Guest on the WACA website, you can only post a URL to pictures that you have stored on a third-party host service. If you send your pictures directly to me, I can post them for you.
Bert (Admin) – [email protected]
Thanks Bert – it looks like my pictures are in the post. SN is 19317x
Your pictures are not viewable in your original post.
Serial number 19317? tells us that your Winchester is a Model “1894” and that it was manufactured in September of the year 1903.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
Bert, I can see his pics fine in the first post, something must be weird for you. Here’s a direct link to one:
Jeremy P said
Bert, I can see his pics fine in the first post, something must be weird for you. Here’s a direct link to one:https://i.postimg.cc/NfvnjP6g/IMG-9537.avif
The file extension “.avif” is an unrecognized format.
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
Bert H. said
Jeremy P said
Bert, I can see his pics fine in the first post, something must be weird for you. Here’s a direct link to one:
https://i.postimg.cc/NfvnjP6g/IMG-9537.avif
The file extension “.avif” is an unrecognized format.
Maybe I have some sweet tech I didn’t know I had….that’s a picture file on my machines, so they’re all showing for me.
Jeremy P said
Bert H. said
Jeremy P said
Bert, I can see his pics fine in the first post, something must be weird for you. Here’s a direct link to one:
https://i.postimg.cc/NfvnjP6g/IMG-9537.avif
The file extension “.avif” is an unrecognized format.
Maybe I have some sweet tech I didn’t know I had….that’s a picture file on my machines, so they’re all showing for me.
You apparently do have a converter program installed on your PC. It (and .HEIC) is not a compatible file format for the WACA forums.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
Right click on the picture and then open the HEIC or AVIF files with something like Paint then you can save it to a different format.
Chuck said
Right click on the picture and then open the HEIC or AVIF files with something like Paint then you can save it to a different format.
That does not work on my PC. Pictures uploaded to the WACA website must have a .jpg, .jpeg, or .png file extension.
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
I have a PC. I copy the picture to my desktop then I right click on it and select open with. Then I use Paint to convert it. This works for the HEIC files. I have never heard of the AVIF extension.
His pictures showed up as soon as I opened the Post. I tried the process for the HEIC files and it did not work?
Chuck,
Instead of trying to come up with a method to open and view .avif or .heic files, please adhere to the WACA forum guideline requirements… upload all pictures in the .jpg, .jpeg, or .png format.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
I have never uploaded a picture that was not a JPG file. But I do get HEIC files from those that send me pictures from their I phones. So I convert them to JPG. Some browsers will change these AVIF files automatically and that may be why I could see the pictures from the start? I use Fire Fox and Google Chrome.
Chuck said
Some browsers will change these AVIF files automatically and that may be why I could see the pictures from the start? I use Fire Fox and Google Chrome.
That is very likely the case, but lot of people use a Microsoft based browser. We simply cannot continually upgrade the forum software program to accommodate every new file type that emerges.
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
There free converter websites out there so you don’t have to download software. Just do a google search for your file format to JPEG converter and they will come up. I convert HEIC files to JPEGs and TIFF all the time using these websites. You upload to them and then download the converted file.
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Unless the pictures are deceiving me, the rifle in question has been refinished. The color of the bluing on the barrel and magazine tube is not correct for rust bluing. Further, the butt plate should be case color finished versus blued.
Bert
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