But its original ".30-30" name is the one that stuck and is most commonly used today. 30 WCF (for "Winchester Center Fire"), and occasionally still is. The old factory loads used bullets weighing 160-165 grains.įor a time during the early 20th Century the. 30 caliber cartridge that was originally loaded with 30 grains of the new smokeless powder, which is the source of its name. 30-30 was the first North American sporting cartridge designed for use with smokeless powder. 30-30 Winchester is the cartridge that has became synonymous with the Model 1894 rifle.
30-30 cartridge for which it is chambered. I counted 14 versions of the Model 94 in the 2005 Winchester catalog alone! But for this Classic gun test we are going back to the beginning, with a Model 1894 saddle ring carbine (serial #63,xxx) produced in 1896, just a year after the introduction of the. Since the Model 94 has been produced for 110 years, it has been offered in a bewildering number of variations. But, as it turned out, the Model 1894 appeared at exactly the right time, and the rest is history. In which case it would be only a historical footnote today. The Model 1894 could, like the first Colt double action revolvers and many other firearms that were ahead of their time, have been a commercial flop. It was a big leap forward, and a big gamble.
In fact, the Model 1894 was a ground breaking sporting rifle the first chambered for the (then) new smokeless powder cartridges. No other sporting rifle has approached those numbers, and it is unlikely that one ever will.īut back in 1894 when John Browning completed his design and Winchester began to market it, none of this success was assured. Sales ultimately totaled somewhere around 7,000,000 before the Model 94 was discontinued when the U.S. The Model 94 was the first sporting rifle to sell over 1,000,000 copies. Probably the most famous, and certainly the most popular, hunting rifle in history is the Winchester Model 1894. 94)īy Chuck Hawks Illustration courtesy of U.S. Winchester Model 1894 Classic Gun Review (Win.
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