What is a going price for a clean , all original Winchester 94 30-30 ?made in mid 1950's. Metal 97% , wood is nice but has few handling marks. No extra holes. Original metal but plate. Thanks.

$600-$700 where I shop. . .maybe a little more on a good day. Last one I had close to that age (1948) was in something less than 97% condition and sold for $550; a year or so ago. Good luck.

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I bought a 1958 year model for under 400 earlier this
year. Metal is 98% and wood is good with a few small "dings".
Got this .30-30 at auction but it wasn't on GB
Shoots 150 gr. Remington SP really well.



Chuck

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I bought one from 1962 in 32 special for $250 last year. Problem is that many new shooters do not appreciate the simpler guns from the past.

I have collected and studied this model for a few decades now. A beautifully built, Browning designed firearm. Few people realize how strong the action is. P. O. Ackley tied in the 50's to blow one of these up. After a number of hand loaded bombs he finally succeeded to spring the action. There is only one flaw in the design and I am endeavoring to master it. While I like the rifle version best, a sporting carbine with a light barrel and button magazine seems to follow me into the woods a lot these days. A more perfect knock about gun has never been made. If I had to wander the world with a gun, and hunting was not the main objective, the Winchester 94 would be my first choice. The gun asked about is the least desirable model. It is in every way the equal to the earlier guns but because of the short wood and the fact thousands of these are out there in near mint condition, they do not bring the big bucks older models do. This is a windfall for shooters who want a desirable pre 64 without having to empty the piggyback.

$400-$600 for 1950s Win 94s. The earlier guns were made in
many versions & a few more calibres. These guns are a whole
collectors field on their own. They also bring a lot more money.

Thank You . The seller is at 500.00 firm and says He is giving it away. The rifle looks really nice , I am going to get it. It's a 1952.

Six bills here. Any cheaper than that and it goes in MY safe.

Then you are doing fine at five bills. Enjoy the gun.

I would buy every one I saw at $500.00. I never seem to find the "steal em" prices some of you guys do.

The only thing I would change on 30-30remchester's post; my choice would still be a 94 even if hunting were my main objective. Be sure and follow up with a shooting report!


Dan

I would say $500 would be top for what I would pay for a nice one personally.

I happened to find a May 1942 dated one in nice shape for $350.00 spring of 2015. It is 4 serial numbers away from a known PCMR rifle. I bought it to flip it but haven't because in my mind it is has a very loose tie to the PCMR story. It doesn't make it any more valuable....but I still have it none the less.




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Wow !!! In Bay Area , this rifle for 350.00 would be the same as getting it for free. Good looking gun.

I recently sold one like that for $600
Could not use the open leaf sight

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About a year ago, a friend who ran an pawn shop called me about "something you might like". When I got there it was a Model 94 in extremely good condition for this part of the world. In West Texas 94s seemed to get used until there was very little left to value. This one was made in 1952 and I would have left it there except when I rolled it over in my hands to look at the stock, the previous owner had notched it eleven times with small, discrete notches. Someone had recorded their deer or turkey hunting history on the underside of the stock near the butt plate. Naturally, I should have left there, it being overpriced at seven hundred, but the thought of someone taking their pocket knife and marking part their history down on the rifle that made it was too much to be ignored. It left with me and is now buried away. Probably will never hunt again, but it did pretty good when it was out in the world.

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Paid $450 at Cabela's for one two years ago. Looked like it spent its life in a closet somewhere. Other than a bit of dust it was perfect.

Amazing value for the money in those '50s Model 94's.

What is PCMR?

Guero, it is nice to read your text. I have been hanging around antique guns, knives, axes and ammo for 6 decades now. For about 50 of those years I thought it was my duty and right to find guns and knives like the one you got, and remove all evidence of previous owner. I would quite expertly remove or cover up notch marks and similar evidence of use. Then one day about 10 years ago I woke up. I now appreciate bumps, dents, rubs, and ID marks. I know the exact time I woke up. It was a cold winters night and I had left numerous old items that I thought needed repair for these cold days. This particular day I took my late father-in-laws Old Timer pocket knife, a Vietnam era Imperial MIL-K knife with ID markings, and a beautiful Colt holster for their Buntline Special 22's and I decided to "fix em up". I cleaned all my FIL's pocket lint from the belly of the knife, cleaned, polished and reground a broken blade. I then cleaned out the Vietnam dust, dirt, mud and blood from the MIL-K, polished the blade and removed the ID markings. The Colt holster had a hole in the bottom where a gun had discharge while holstered. I patched, sewed, and polished it up. I sat there looking at what appeared at first glance to be mint condition items and came to the realization that I had single handedly destroyed history. The Old Timer was no longer dads. Just another pocket knife in a drawer. The MIL-K and the soldier that carried it and where he carried it will now never be known again. The holster now has a visible patch where an almost invisible hole had been. From that day forward I do as little as possible to any axe, hammer, cartridge, gun or knife I acquire. I have collected antique military, and pocket knives for about 40 years and when I tell you I have ruined hundreds of knives it is not an exaggeration. Good for you for admiring the guns history with its little quirks.

Pacific Coast Militia Rangers. Canada's NW defense during WWII. Very interesting History.

Canadian Rangers - Wikipedia




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I never paid more than $125 for any lever cation except if it was pre '64. You'd see them in the dealers gun racks either just before or after hunting season. I've always had one of the standard carbines of the Winchester flavor. They when the eyes started giving me trouble I went to a Marlin 336 and easy peasy scope mounting on the Marlin. Now I have about a half dozen. Frank

Thanks much for the info and the link. Very cool.