Sights for a Winchester 94

10 January 2002, 20:13

I've come into a Winchester model 94 with iron sights. This rifle is chambered in 30/30 win. and is about 25 years old. SN 4 million and change. With my bifocals I'm having a bit of trouble getting clarity with the rear sight so I'm considering a change to either a ghost ring, a weaver style peep sight or a scout scope. I'd welcome your opinions on which might be preferable under theses circumstances (bifocals). Also, pardon my ignorance, but I'm unsure as to exactly what model of 94 I have. It ejects from the top and the rail of the ejector is at an angle but I don't know what constitutes an "angle eject". How do I determine just what I have here?

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11 January 2002, 03:41

<Paul Dustin>

I have the some trouble and I put on a 2.5 x32 scope and it a shot good. I would go with the scope.

13 January 2002, 15:13

franke

Plainview,
If you are having ANY trouble wth those open sights,by all means,install a scope.
On mine,I got a Leuplod 1X-4X scope,and I am very happy with it.What ever you do,don't get a big,high power thing for that neat,little rifle. A fixed power 2.5 power would be just fine.
A 25 year old rifle is probably top eject;you need an offset scope. Williams make a mount for it.
Frank

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Frank

13 January 2002, 17:17

<Redmist>

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Originally posted by plainview:
I've come into a Winchester model 94 with iron sights. This rifle is chambered in 30/30 win. and is about 25 years old. SN 4 million and change. With my bifocals I'm having a bit of trouble getting clarity with the rear sight so I'm considering a change to either a ghost ring, a weaver style peep sight or a scout scope. I'd welcome your opinions on which might be preferable under theses circumstances (bifocals). Also, pardon my ignorance, but I'm unsure as to exactly what model of 94 I have. It ejects from the top and the rail of the ejector is at an angle but I don't know what constitutes an "angle eject". How do I determine just what I have here?

You may want to consider a red dot sight. Very fast, not at all critical as to eye
placement in a fast breaking situation, and
more than accurate enough at carbine ranges.

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14 January 2002, 04:54

Stonecreek

Keep the scope off of your gun. It wasn't designed for a scope, and either an offset scope or a forward mount scope is an abomination.

You're on the right track with peep sights. You only have to focus on the front sight and the target, which is fairly easy to do, even with older eyes. You'll find that looking through the aperture of the rear peep actually has the effect of helping your eye focus on the target. The smaller the aperture, the easier to focus (just like when you reduce the aperture on a camera you increase the in-focus distance). My suggestion would be a Williams or Lyman rear peep which is made to use with the factory front. This combination will wring all of the accuracy out of your old '94 that it is capable of, and you'll still have a nice, clean, traditional saddle carbine instead of a cobbled-together, hybridized sort of half-assed bastard rifle.