I've been looking for a good Win M94 for the past couple of years.
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Found one at my lgs. It is a late 60's/70's 1894 Antique models.
I had one years ago. It was my favorite lever gun and regretted ever selling it.
The Antique model had a case hardened reciever and etching
for Gold...
We had a drought 15 years or so ago and were shooting into 3 row of semi tires filled with sand at 100 yds. That was our pistol/rifle range, If we wanted to shoot longer, we panned 20' to the right and had a 400 acre field to shoot at. We had a natural berm at 600 yds and limited our shooting...
You have 2 options:
You have an authentic post WW2 mix master
or
You can chase all the original parts down and hope it raises the selling price
But, remember, it was made to go bang. It will do it either way
Odds are the High Standard has no disconnect, so slam firing is possible. That's when you can hold the trigger down after a shot and jack the slide, causing the HS to fire without releasing the trigger.
That is a definite keeper.
Dump the rest and buy a Remington 870
Make sure the ejector rod hasn't backed out and is exerting pressure on the front stop. If it is, screw in the ejector rod counter clockwise to tighten it up. HTH
I use racing fuel and or AV gas in my small gas motors since they have no alcohol. Run the carb dry and get the race gas or AV gas with Stabil added. Friends us this with bikes, 4 wheelers and sno mo's They all start easily when needed.
I've had all three versions of the Detective Spl's and I prefer the action of the Gen 2 to be the best. I also prefer the feel of the Gen 3 with the square butt grips over the overs.
So if I could find a Gen 3 DS and a gun smith who can perform the Gen 2 trigger job on it, I would have the...
Been wanting a lever gun for awhile
Picked up a Win M94 "Antique" post 64' 30-30. No wear, the case hardening had faded and the brass cartridge spring and the saddle
ring had flaked off its brass plating.
Stock is VG bluing perfect and a shiny bore to boot.
It was there on consignment...
If you're worrying about the muzzle, just do the marble trick with a polishing paste, you could do the same to the bolt (without the marble) to make it shiny, but the machining would still lightly show through.