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I have a question about the tube magazine . Is there a way to tell if a magazine on an old 94 is original to the gun?
Without a picture we can’t really tell. There are books that show each part and what is correct for that period of gun.
Gringo said
I have a question about the tube magazine . Is there a way to tell if a magazine on an old 94 is original to the gun?
No, there is not. Individual parts are not serialized. A magazine tube can be swapped from one gun to another with no way knowing as long as the wear is approximately the same. Putting a new condition tube on an old gun is easy to spot.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
You’re right it would be tough. Since 1915 it’s had a lot of time to be turned into a Frankensteiner. It is not in the serial number range to get a Winchester letter that would have info for it, so I’m speculating what it was in a prior life. For sure the butt and 20″ barrel have been replaced. The reciever, two barrel bands ,and tube show the same wear and patina. The tube has a blued place near the end where carbine bands are, it does have a carbine handguard, but does not gave the saddle ring that most carbines had at the time. Is there a 30-30 model of that time that had similar carbine features but with a barrel longer than 20″? I’ll try to post a couple of pics.
Model 94 Carbines never had a barrel longer than 20-inches.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
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