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Win 94 "short rifle"?

taperloc
Did Winchester offer a Model 94, 22" octagon barrel "short rifle"?
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  • kimi
    Renneberg notes that any deviation from the 26 inch round or octagon barrels must be considered special order. Madis notes that some issues of the Winchester catalog offered extra-lightweight rifles with twenty-two inch barrels.
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  • Bert H.
    quote:Originally posted by taperloc
    Did Winchester offer a Model 94, 22" octagon barrel "short rifle"?


    Did Winchester "Offer" it... No. Did Winchester make any of them... Yes.
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  • glabray
    Winchester would provide any barrel length desired, within reason, on special order. Whenever a shorter than standard barrel is encountered however, one needs to be a bit cautious. When the short barrel is octagon one must be extra cautious. In several decades of Winchester collecting, I have come across only a few 1894/94s with factory original shorter than standard octagon barrels. There are quite a few short octagon barrel guns out there but most have been cut.
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  • Old-Colts
    As mentioned already, yes, Winchester made this configuration. There are at least three listed and shown in the Madis book, two of them have rapid taper octagon barrels.
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  • Bert H.
    As a follow-up to the "Short Rifle" question, Winchester manufactured 2,252 Model 1894 22" barreled rifles in the first 353,999 made.

    The total number of "Short Rifles" made between serial numbers 1 -353,999 was 7,023, and includes lengths from as short as 14" up to 25". The rarest length is 17", 19.5", 22.5", and 23.5", with only one of each made. A 20" octagon barrel was the most common "Short" length, with a total of 2,980 made, followed by the 22" length. Expressed as a % of the total researchable production, approximately 2% of all Model 1894s were "Short Rifles". If the 75,075 Carbines made are taken out of the equation, 2.5% of all Rifles were shorter than standard.

    There were a lot more "Short" Rifles made in the 353,000 - 1,090,000 serial number range, but what the actual number was/is will most likely forever remain a mystery. My estimate is that the total number lies somewhere very near the 18,000 mark. I believe that I may have discovered the very last one made... serial number 1079186 (manufactured in early 1932). It is a Take Down Sporting Rifle with a 20-inch 30 W.C.F. barrel, shotgun butt, and I-pattern checkered select walnut stocks... definitely a very "special" order Model 94!
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