I hate it when a lever gun looks new....

[HaveBlue83]

Sweet. Thx for the lesson. I figured that was the reason.

Not yucky....just not as sleek as the 92. But he did well. Used what he had.

[Archer]

The actions are different to do different things.
The 94 Winchesters can be had in both long and short cartridges and if you can find one they made a large bore version for the 375 Winchester. Versatile guns that until I could buy one could be had NIB for $200-250 all day every day.

The Win 92s and 86s are a lot of fun IMO. Really like those actions.

The Marlin 336, 1894, 1895 took me some time to warm up to and I'm sorry I didn't take advantage of the ones that were available when they were easy to pick up.

Want to shoot pointed bullets? Grab a Browning BLR in almost any modern caliber you want (including 300 WM). If you can find one the Winchester 1895 in .30-06 that works but is a bit clunky. Then there's the Savage levers, nice actions but most I've seen recently are showing some wear, expensive, and are usually in calibers you need to reload if you want to shoot.

The Henry's are nice but expensive and a bit heavy IMO.

Then there's all the single shot lever guns.

Rossi may be making copies of other folks designs but they aren't bad designs and are nice to have.

I'm thinking I need to pop over to OTHER lever guns and start a .22 lever gun thread sometime in the next couple days.

[pricedo]

The 94 Winchesters can be had in both long and short cartridges and if you can find one they made a large bore version for the 375 Winchester.

Incidentally, the most powerful commercially manufactured Winchester 1894 made ever is the Winchester model 1894 Trails End in 450 Marlin. I am the proud owner of one. It is made by the Miroku Company in Japan and in many details is very similar to the pre-64 Winchester 1894s. The gun weighs in at 6 3/4 pounds and has a muzzle break & a superb Pachmayr recoil pad to attenuate the heavy recoil.......the apparent "kick" felt on the shoulder is like that of a 7 pound 30-06 Sprng bolt action rifle firing normal 180 grain factory ammo.

To some purists they stopped making "real" Winchester leverguns in 2006 when the Connecticut Winchester plant closed its doors. The Miroku made Winchesters have ignominiously been dubbed "Japchesters".

**I got my 94 Trails End "cheap" at under $1200.....they're tagged at $1499 in the same shop today !
I think I paid $69.99 for my first American made NIB 94 back in the day.

[HaveBlue83]

We have a 1949 win m94 at the shop for $499. Its got a slong and bluing loss but its neato. 30-30

[pricedo]

We have a 1949 win m94 at the shop for $499. Its got a slong and bluing loss but its neato. 30-30

I've seen decent pre-64s go for $375 - $400.
They'll never be a rarity in our lifetimes because Winchester made so darn many of them.
It would take a very exceptional pre-64 1894 to make me part with more than $450 to be its owner.

Just looking at a Winchester 94AE in 356 Winchester advertised for $560 on a Canadian vendor website.
Somebody replaced the original sights with a Williams peep sight on the back & a fiber optic at the front.
Had the sights and everything else been original I might have been interested.
2 boxes of new factory 356 Winchester ammo were available on the same site for @ $40/20 rounds.

[Archer]

I've seen decent pre-64s go for $375 - $400.
They'll never be a rarity in our lifetimes because Winchester made so darn many of them.

I think I read something like a couple million 94s from start to now.

[45LC92]

I've seen decent pre-64s go for $375 - $400.
They'll never be a rarity in our lifetimes because Winchester made so darn many of them.

I think I read something like a couple million 94s from start to now.

Think it's more like 7 million+.

[pricedo]

I've seen decent pre-64s go for $375 - $400.
They'll never be a rarity in our lifetimes because Winchester made so darn many of them.

I think I read something like a couple million 94s from start to now.

Think it's more like 7 million+.

And that's not including the Japchester (Miroku) 94s which in reality are a custom shop specialty gun that not everybody can afford at an almost $1500 MSRP.......but what a BEAST the 450 Marlin version is....... each bullet packing ~3500 ft-lbs of ME from a 6 3/4 pound levergun !! .......that shoulder cannon will WASTE any critter in North America.

The gun might look new but anything that was standing in front of it when it went off WON'T.

[Archer]

Whups must have read > 5 million. It was a reference from a few years back, but not that far, and in passing as I was looking for other info.