The Polishing Room Serialization Record Books (PRSRBs) which contain nothing more than just the serial number, fortunately survive up to serial number 1,352,066, which was manufactured on December 29th, 1945.įor all of the many people who collect the Model 1894/94, this information should be both very enlightening and useful, and I highly encourage everyone to save a copy of it. Undoubtedly, all of the caliber, and the Rifle versus Carbine production number ratios would change drastically if the records were available for serial numbers 354,000 - 2,600,298. ![]() Unfortunately for all of the many collectors and interested people, all of the remaining pre-64 factory warehouse records (serial numbers 354,000 - 2,600,000+ were destroyed in a fire in the late 1950s or early 1960s. All of my statistical numbers were derived from a detailed survey (conducted by the Cody Firearms Museum) of the first 353,999 serial number records, and from the Polishing Room Serialization Record Books (held by the Cody Firearms Museum). This is a post that he has made and I hope you find it as informative as I have.Ī bored mind is a terrible thing to waste, so having some free time to kill, I finally put together a fact sheet on the true production ratios and the verified DOMs for the Winchester Model 1894/94.Īs many of you will undoubtedly note, the figures I have compiled below vary significantly from the numbers published by George Madis in his tomes "The Winchester Book" and "The Winchester Handbook". Weren’t the last numbers used to build M62-A’s? Most I have seen with numbers in the 85,000 range, are like my M62-A # 853279B.FWIW, Bert Hartman has been a Moderater on Gunbrokers "Ask the experts" for many years.įor the past 5 years he has spent at least two weeks a year with a volunteer at the Cody Museum of Firearms research room. I have entered your Model 90 rifle in the research survey that is in progress documenting the merged production time period.īert, I cant thank you enough! Great information as always!īert. Your Model 90 was simply one of the standard production rifles manufactured during the time period when the Model 90 and Model 06 shared the same serial number range. No production took place between July 20th, 1942 and November 23, 1949. Beginning in February of 1933, Winchester began parts clean-up production of the Model 90 and 06 and continued sporadic production until S/N 854747 was reached (in late November 1949 when the final two rifles were assembled). From March 10th, 1926 through June 6th, 1932, the Models 90 and 06 were all in the 713200 – 846022 serial number range (no numbers skipped). The Model 06 serial numbers ended at 685999 on March 10th, 1926, and resumed in the Model 90 S/N range at 713200. What did happen, is that on March 10th, 1926 (at S/N 713199), Winchester merged the serial numbers of the Model 90 with the Model 06. ![]() Winchester never “randomly” chose serial numbers, nor did they “skip” any serial numbers for the Model 90. The information you found on Proofhouse is erroneous. Model 90 S/N 793204 was manufactured December 1st, 1928. After 1932 serial numbers were chosen at random many numbers were skipped and the highest serial number recorded is 849,100”. The Winchester database shows it to have been made in 1928 but Proofhouse has a note that says “Actual production of guns reached serial number 752,044. I picked up a Winchester Model 1890 in 22 short today and it has a confusing serial number of 793204.
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