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Interesting Ad for Winchester 94
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road king
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May 2, 2015 - 8:13 pm
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Found this old newspaper ad the other day from 1960 for Winchester Model 94 from Sears. Notice in the ad that it say it comes drilled and tapped for a scope. I wonder if Sears ordered them that way from Winchester. I doubt they would have a Gunsmith in the store doing this work.

 

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Wonder if that is just an error in the ad?

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I suspect that they were trying to say that it was drilled & tapped for a receiver mounted peep sight.  It was in 1952 that Winchester began drilling & tapping the left upper side of the receiver.

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Bert, you are always the skeptic. Wink

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road king said

Bert, you are always the skeptic. Wink

Brian,

Maybe, but then again, I have not run across any late production Model 94s that were factory drilled & tapped for a scope.  All of them that I have examined were clearly drilled & tapped after the fact.  Sears & Roebuck sold a lot of Winchesters back in the day, and if they were ordering them drilled & tapped, I feel fairly confident that I would have run across some of them by now.

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 Which is more likely?  Something of a revolutionary discovery concerning an undocumented sixties subspecies of Model 94 or… a simple ad error.  “Occam’s razor” strongly suggests that Bert is right.

Most likely either confusion in the type of sights for which drilled & tapped, or an even simpler error in transplanting scope mounting feature verbiage from other gun(s). 

My take.

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This was Simpson Sears (Canadian) not Sears and Roebuck ad. I guess we will never really know. I know there were scope mounts that utilized the existing receiver sight holes and the forward screw in the receiver. Maybe that it is what they were referring to also.

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AS a Marlin collector trying to learn more I have ventured off in the history of Winchester.  The add very well could be correct as no way to know for sure. 

The reason I say this is early on the Marlin Model 39A at Sears request Marlin drilled and tapped the left side of the barrel for a scope mount this

practice was short lived as Marlin was not pleased with the location so they began drilling and tapping the top of the receiver  never the less every

once in a while you will find a 39A with holes in the left side of the barrel that one can assume came from Sears.  

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