I am working on a 'commemorative' version of the Winchester 94 30-30. Normally, I breakdown these units and give it a good cleaning, rust irradiation (inside & out), greasing, rewaxing the wood and viola. We got a shiny, new looking unit.

This particular version is the typical Winchester commemorative type with the fancy scribing and white letters within the scribing throughout the receiver and rear of the barrel as well as the mounted doubloon-like coin on the starboard side of the stock.

This particular version has an octagonal barrel (nice unit). Normally the front band surrounds the barrel & magazine and is secured by a screw in the center of the front band. In this version, there appears a dovetailed bracket mounted underneath the barrel, which then secures the magazine to the bottom of the barrel. What is missing is what I would expect to be a screw head. Furthermore, the bracket just below and forward where the screw head is supposed to be is broken. Normally, the screw is removed, along with the bracket � then replaced.

Q1: Does anyone out there in gunsmithland know if this is a screwed in assembly?

Q2: Where could I obtain a dovetail bracket and its associated screw or pin? (Brownells & Winchester do not have any available).

Q3: If these parts are possibly unavailable, where could I get one fabricated?

Would appreciate any information anyone has available!

[ 09-03-2002, 06:19: Message edited by: Alex Szabo ]

Try Gun Parts Corp (Numrich Arms) in New York. They used to sell kits with all these parts in them. I don't have the number handy, but they usually have adds in all the gun rags. - Dan