M1894 SRC # 306366 May of 1906|Winchester Rifles|Forum|Winchester Collector

Larry,

Winchester started Proof Making the Model 1894 in May 1905 (including the SRCs). Your SRC was manufactured 1-year after proof marking began, and it is one of at least nine SRCs that I have found thus far with the barrel proof mark stamped forward of the rear sight. The serial number range is 306350 – 384000 for the SRCs marked like yours. I do not believe that they are “scarce” per se.

Bert

Big Larry said

If you have seen only 6, I would say they are very scarce. Out of 7,000,000+++???  Big Larry

Larry,

I have documented nine of them thus far… and I am only one man, looking at a very small percentage of the Model 1894s made. 

Using 7,000,000+ as a production reference point versus the nine of them that I have found is bogus.  Winchester only manufactured 2,600,011 Pre-1964 Model 1894/94s, and a more realistic yardstick comparison would be to use the 138,051 Model 1894s manufactured in the years 1906 – 1908 were the nine were found.

Bert